Knicks Extend Mikal Bridges For 4 More Years! | NYK Still Waiting For Vet Player | Coaching Update

Knicks Extend Mikal Bridges For 4 More Years! | NYK Still Waiting For Vet Player | Coaching Update

Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. N. Heat. Heat. The legs don’t W hey the legs. The legs. The legs. The legs. What’s going on everybody? Hope everybody is doing well. Happy Saturday to you all. Um you know blessings to to everyone. Um we are fortunate and lucky to wake up another day uh and being you know uh blessed to be on this earth. Um definitely don’t take anything for granted. enjoy the time you have um and be there for your family, friends, and you know, whatever loved ones you might have. Ah, uh real quick, currently it is 80° going up to a high of 81. Very nice weather, nice little cool breeze. Uh not too humid outside, so it’s a beautiful day in the New York area. Um next few days, tomorrow, uh 83, Monday, 87, sunny. Uh, Tuesday 90, Wednesday 84, Thursday 80, and Friday 80. So nice weather. I mean, except for that that that 90 is a little hot, but you know, compared to what we’ve been getting lately, we got to take it and enjoy it for what it is. Uh, I apologize for being um uh a little late. Uh, as you know, I had to push the show back to a later time today anyway because I was at um memorial service for uh one of our people’s uh John and I. and you know the rest of the people I know um a really uh great young gentleman man uh his name was Jamal uh you know uh Lynch uh we call him Lil Horse um and just a fantastic individual um incredible to see how uh much his life has impacted so many others. Uh he man the turnout was incredible. I mean like people standing up throughout the whole plate like everybody sitting then people standing up along the sides people all the way out the door on the street. I’m like yo is that if that doesn’t say something about a person’s life. If that doesn’t tell you how much you impact uh people and how much your life has meant to others. I don’t know what will. Uh this had to be the most incredible memorial service I I have ever been to. I mean, it was like I was watching a Tyler Perry movie. I mean, literally with the with the everybody that was there with the love that they were showing, with the words that they were giving, expressing how they felt about him. And then you had tributes. People went up there and sang. And when I tell you that they sang beautifully, it was like I’m I’ve never seen it. I’ve never witnessed this in real life before. It’s like the only You only see this in movies. like oh my god I can’t I can’t even express how beautiful it was to hear these people singing and their voices and h man for someone who loves music the way I do I couldn’t believe how great this was so uh definitely um you know unbelievable uh let me get myself off the screen once again you know rip to J horse Lynch I call him little horse we call him little horse because his brother is big is is horse and then his father was big horse. It’s like a legacy, right? And they all played ball. They all had hops. Um just, you know, really incredible. Um and I just want to share one quick thing. I don’t want to, you know, I don’t know the person who said this at the memorial service. You know, he had a lot of teammates that were there like because the thing, you know, if you guys watched when John and I had the show the other day, John mentioned that he he tried out for the New York Knicks. He didn’t make the big club, but he made like G-League Club, right? And the the the gentleman who also made the G-League club with him was expressing that when they had tryyous, there was a person and they all did good, but there was one guy who just looked like he he he, you know, shouldn’t have been there, but he was trying. And you know, when they’re in the middle of the gym, the suicides, whatever they had going on when they were running back and forth, Jamal Horse Lynch uh stopped his training and stopped what he was doing and ran alongside the guy who was struggling like ran with him and said, “Keep going. Let’s go. Let’s get it.” Like telling him, you know, to keep moving, keep doing it. Just to help him get through his training. So that just you know that’s just an example of who this this young man was to so many to us to myself and John and to the rest of his family and friends and he will uh you know severely be missed. Um he had a life and and more importantly he had a legacy. Um, he was a god-fearing young man and you know just uh so as I always say to everybody, please take care of yourselves. Don’t take things for granted. If there you notice anything, you know, definitely go right away to see what’s going on. But even if you don’t notice anything, the best thing you can do is get yourself checked twice a year at least. Um, and just make sure you’re all right. He led a good life. He did the right things, but unfortunately cancer is something you can’t predict. And when it gets you, it gets you. So, blessings to him and his family. Once again, RIP Jamal Little Horse Lynch. Love you, my brother. All right. Um, okay. So, let’s get back to it, guys. Like I said, I apologize. You know, I just I didn’t even change. I just ran right in here and to get it going cuz like I said, I was already late. Um, but uh I hope everybody’s doing okay. Uh, appreciate everybody out there. Um, and uh, let’s get it. Okay, so first off, it’s it’s you you guys know it’s been quiet. It hasn’t been a lot going on and the Knicks haven’t done a lot officially. Unless I’m wrong, you guys can correct me if I’m wrong. I haven’t seen a lot of official press releases when it comes to these coaches, for example. Um, we have seen some press releases with regard to some players. Um, but you know, there’s just been it’s like kind of dry news time right now. It’s very dry, but we we you know, we got to get through it, man, because this is what the off season is about. It’s not always um exciting and fun. You know, you kind of got to get through everything that that comes along with it. But the big news that everybody’s talking about obviously, well, we know is the New York Knicks have extended Macau Bridges and he is going to be a part of the New York Knick team for another four years unless something changes. He’s got a four-year deal, 150 million. Um, and uh, yeah, I think it’s a beautiful thing because it shows that the team is locked in right now. I know some people may have felt a certain way about Muel’s up and down play last year, but then you know the other side of it is you’ve seen how important how impactful he can be in big moments. He stepped up huge at certain times in the playoffs. He had some great moments throughout the regular season. So, you know, the talent is there. It’s all we need him to do is be a little bit more consistent, but he definitely is not he’s not somebody that I would say is not worth the money. This is the going rate for a two-way player in the NBA, you know, and he is a two-way player. He just needs all he needs, guys, is consistency, but he got he’s got the goods. Uh this is a statement from Leon Rose said, “We are pleased to sign uh Mikuel to a long-term contract extension and for his commitment to what we uh what we are building in New York since Macau’s arrival with us a little over a year ago. He has shown his dedication, professionalism, and winning pedigree on on and off the court on a daily basis. Macau is a unique talent who possesses a skill set and a durability that very few players in this league have and his abilities on both sides of the court in every game in every game made him a vital part of our team success last season or successes last season. We look forward to his continued growth and development as a part of the Knicks family for years to come. Leon Rose. Yeah, 100% man. Uh Muel has the goods. Like I said, it’s all about consistency and if he can, you know, put that stuff together and uh you know, do the damn thing, we we’ll we we are going to be a very good basketball team for for many years to come. Uh so, you know, we we we got to see we got to see uh where we go from here. Um but but and the other thing I want to uh state to everyone is Mikuel’s extension is the going rate for a person of his caliber who has his skill set. So some people I know are uh a little upset about it because they’re thinking, “Oh, you know what? Now you know he had a season where he was inconsistent and we rewarded him and now we’re going to be stuck with that big contract.” guys, he has gotten the going rate for his position, for his skill set. There’s not many people that can do what he does at that level in the NBA. As much as you know you going to want to take it for granted, MueL Bridges is a very good player. He just needs consistency. But as far as what he can do on both sides of the court, he’s been at a very high level. So, it’s not like you can’t trade him. And it’s not like his contract is an albatross. He’s making what people make who do what he does. So don’t feel a certain way, guys. I think this is a beautiful thing. I think Mike Brown is going to get the best out of Mau Bridges. And I think Ricardo Fu, his old coach and old development coach at that, who he respects and thinks he he credits him for becoming the player that he is. I think that’s a great signing for the Knicks. And I think if if anybody those two can get the best out of Macau Bridges. So I think it’s a great move and I think eventually we’re going to look at it and say I hope the way everything has gone this is another fantastic move for the organization and it’s not going to limit them into what they want to do going forward. So I think we should feel good about it um and look at it as another solid move by the organization. Um because we have to we have to commit to things, give these players the the the the ability to feel comfortable where they’re at. So that’s another thing that helps players play better, knowing that they’re not in limbo, knowing that they’re going to be somewhere, knowing that they’re appreciated. That helps. It helps. So, uh yeah, we’ll see. We’ll see what happens from here. We also know that the um uh veteran minimum player that we still have money to add hasn’t been decided as of yet. I don’t know how what’s going on. Ben Simmons is holding us hostage right now. Uh I guess that tells you a lot, guys, for for a lot of Nick fans who don’t want Ben Simmons. Apparently, the Knicks really want Ben Simmons because they’re not moving until Ben Simmons makes a definitive decision saying that he doesn’t want to be a Nick, which shows you how important they think adding him to the Knicks is, which makes me think that we are missing something, guys. We are missing the impact that a guy of his status can have on this team. We know that he’s limited because he hasn’t really had a chance to play a lot of minutes. Um, you know, to really show what he can do for extended period of time. Um, we know that he’s he has to deal with the scrutiny of New York. But as I’ve said multiple times, scrutiny, what scrutiny? You you played in Philadelphia. Philadelphia is like the worst place to play if you don’t want to hear fans get on you. Philadelphia fans are brutal, right? Then he played in Brooklyn. Hello guys, where’s Brooklyn located? Is not not in New York? Like come on, man. You know, like what what scrutiny is going to be that much different because you have a New York Nick uniform on, you’re going to get it the way no matter where you at. So I think that’s a copout and I think he can deal with the scrutiny of New York. It’s the same. It’s a microscope that you’ve already been under in Philadelphia and in Brooklyn. So, and if you went to Boston, Boston is just as bad. So, what what will be the point here? So, stop saying it’s about no scrutiny if if people want to throw that out there. All this is about is about him feeling comfortable where he’s going to be and playing time if that’s what he chooses. It could be money, too. But if he’s still considering the Knicks, it’s not about the money. The the Knicks lore and and the the the thing that’s attracting him is the fact that we’re playing for a championship. At least that’s the that’s the goal. So, you know, so we’ll see what happens. Um, you know, so we got that in the air and, you know, that’s still holding up that that that position. And then coaching side of things, you know, nothing official has been said yet. Uh, Ricardo Fuas, I mean, unless I’m mistaken, guys, have you guys seen the press release about Ricardo Fas being hired as a Nick coach? Maybe I missed it. Uh uh they hired the other gentleman from Sacramento. Now, now I’m forgetting his name, but I’ll get it. I haven’t seen an official press release about that either, unless I missed it. Uh and then apparently we’re we’re we’re going to be taking one of uh Tyron Lou’s uh coaches from his staff and the Clippers, uh Brendan O’ Conor, who’s a defensive coach, and adding him to the staff. Once again, that’s not official yet, but apparently that’s where it’s leaning. Um, but still, uh, and that’s a good signing as well, but we still have that assistant head coach position available. They still haven’t addressed that. So, I don’t know where we go from here, but the coaching staff itself is rounding out with those hires, if those do become official, are really good hires. You got uh the uh Brendan Okconor, like I said, is a very good defensive coach. We need that. You got Ricardo Fuaz who is a very good coach with the developing talent and helping people maximize their skills. We need that. And then the other gentleman, I don’t know his specialty, which I’m I’m going to look him up again. Um and I and I’ll find out his name. So bear with me, guys. Um uh I know I mentioned it before, but now it escapes me. So uh yeah, and then we’ll see what we we what we get going forward. But yeah, there’s a lot of good stuff to talk about and um you know, we’ll see, man. We’ll see. Like I said, the offseason is quiet, but there’s still things happening. Shout out to the chat. Appreciate you guys for bearing with me. Shout out to Shaw was in the building. Salute to you, my guy. Salute, salute, salute. Uh one half of the the, you know, Nick’s Real Talk crew. Uh shout out to them. They had a good show the other day, too. And my guy Devon, what’s going on? Appreciate y’all. Um, thank you everybody who’s tuned in. To those who are on X, to those who are on YouTube, smash the like button. If you’re on X or on Facebook, please share out to the rest of your people. Let them know we rocking. Shout out to my brother Noel uh Perez on Facebook. Appreciate you, my guy. Salute to you. Um, uh, Anddios NYK is in the building. Says, “Nick fans, if you’re loving the content, make sure to give the like button a click, subscribe to the channel, relax, and soak in the experience.” Salute to you, Anddios, as always. Appreciate you. Definitely go follow Anddios on Instagram. He just posted up a post about as soon as the Macau Bridges news, he was on it like like like two minutes later, he was already posting about it. Shout out to him. Uh Joey Ripomup Sports is in the building. Appreciate you. He says, “What up, fam?” Uh appreciate you, my guy, and thank you for being a member of the SKF Army. Shout out to Nostalgic Nick in the building. Says, “Ron G. What’s going on, brother?” He said, “Congrats to the Iron Man on his contract.” That’s a fact. Wonder Woman is in the building. Let’s go. What up, Wonder Woman? He said, “Good afternoon, Ron, in the chat. Hope everyone is having a great day.” Yes. Yes. This is a beautiful weather out there. Beautiful day. And, you know, from what I just witnessed a little while ago with those memorial services, incredible. Incredible. It just put me in a better mood about life and and remembering someone who’s so special to to so many around me. Um, shout out to Double D in the in the building said, “What’s up everybody? What’s going on, Double D?” He said, “The summer is almost over, but the weather is beautiful outside. We’re inching closer to training camp and preeason.” That’s a fact. Salute to David Smith in the building. Salute. Said, “Solute to Ron in the chat on the night. Question for Ron in the chat. If Nick Knicks win on an NBA title with Cat, is Cat then the best center in Knicks history? Um, I can’t say that. I I I’m going to say because the Knicks have won NBA championships before with centers. So, does that mean those centers were the best centers in Knicks history? Um, and it depends on C how Cat plays. Listen, Cat played great last year. He had a couple moments that, you know, we all want him to be better at, but as far as he had a great year, right? fantastic year. If he has another year like that and they win the championship, he definitely will be looked at as one of the best centers in Nick history. Um, and some people might coin, you know, give him that that title. I I just think that we got to see we got to see how good he plays, but it definitely could. He definitely could. Shout out to Craig in the building. What up, Craig? Um, Margaret Edwards is in the building. Let’s go, Margaret said, “Hi, Ron in the chat. What’s going on? Good to see you.” Uh oh, David Spitz also says, “I’m giving Mike Brown a chance even though he’s not my choice so long as he has Brunson share the ball more with Cat and OG and on Anbi this year. Nick’s hardly ever lost a game when it win at least 30 assists.” This is very true. Shout out to Rasul Thomas in the building. What up, Rasu? Says salute everyone. Nick Nation is in the building. What up, Nick Nation? Says salute. Salute. Bodega Wi-Fi is here. Salute to the still Nick fans family. Salute, Bodega. Um, Craig says, “Nicks 55 plus wins next season. Over or under?” I’m going Well, I’m going to go right there. I can’t say under and I’m not going over because I predicted 55. So, yes, I’m going right there. 55. Um, Nick Yak in the building says, “Uh, Ros, oh, I’m showing the protective Mitch Bashing.” That will surely happen. I don’t know who’s going to be bashing Mitch. Not on my end. I’m I’m not trying to bash him, but you know, maybe the chat. I don’t know. Nick Nation says, “My deepest sympathies to you and your f Hey, appreciate you, Nick Nation. Thank you.” Uh Bodega says, “Sending out prayers to you and yours.” Thank you. Appreciate you, my guy. Uh Nick says, “Sure help the family.” Yeah. Mhm. Uh Craig, are you serious, man? He said, “Ron, I think this is the first time I’m seeing you without a hat.” Are you Hello. Do you not watch Walking and Talking? You comment on it all the time. What do you think I do? Is the hat visible to you that I’m not wearing? No. Oh man. Uh, you know, I don’t know, bro. I’m here. Uh, shout out to Rand in the building. Uh, salute Ron and to the chat. Appreciate you, Rand. Thank you for being a member of the SKF army. Salute. Nick Yak says, “Leon don’t tell uh what he’s doing. I don’t believe anything inside is to say, especially Simmons or Westbrook. They’re just guessing.” I hear you. I hear you. Buzz is in the building. What up, Buzzabita? Darlene Bryant is in the building. Let’s go. What up, Darlene? Says, “Solute Ron.” Miguel P in the building. Salute to Ron and the chat. What’s going on, Miguel? Appreciate you. Thank you for being a member of the SKF Army. All right, Sherwin’s in the building. What up, Sherwin? He said, “Good afternoon, all folks. Ron uh mentioned cancer, but the biggest killer of black people is is heart’s disease. I taught and had a cold that uh wasn’t going away, but it was heart fail. My heart was at five.” Oh my god. Wow. Sherwin, I’m sorry to hear that, brother. Man, that’s crazy. Oh, I mean, I don’t know how long ago that was, but I hope there’s been much time between then and now, and you you’ve rebounded and got a lot better. I Wow, that’s that’s that’s incredible. I’m sorry you had to go through that, my brother. Uh that’s terrible. But you ain’t lying. You’re right. uh you know cancer is definitely impactful but heart disease uh anything that is uh also related heart disease is definitely uh hugely impactful that we have to be more we have to monitor ourselves better the other thing too is like all the other things that affect our body that we actually do have control on by our way we function and I’m not good at this I’ll be the first to admit I’m terrible you know I got to be better at how I eat how I control my diet the type things like I have a sweet tooth. I got issues and I know that that’s bad for me. So, I got to do better at it. You know what I mean? So, you know, we got to diabetes, uh, high blood pressure, all these things, man. We got to take care of ourselves. We take it for granted because, you know, we feel good most of the time. Even when we hear, “Oh, you might be susceptible to this.” Or, “Hey, man, your levels are going up. You’re right there, but I still feel good. So, that means I’m good. As long as my levels ain’t there, I’m all right.” No, that’s not the way you got to look at it. You should look at it like that’s a warning that I have to address because if I don’t address it, I can be in a much uh you know worse shape than I think I’m in right now. Cuz once you start feeling sick, guys, I I you know, I know it’s been up and down. Sometimes I feel okay. You know, most of the time I feel okay and then in a couple days I like I don’t feel that great today. But once you really get to that point where you start feeling sick sick, there’s no turning back. You know, now you there. So why why don’t we listen to ourselves? Listen to our bodies what it’s telling us. Listen to the people that are trying to warn us about how we take care of ourselves. We got to do better. And I know me personally, I’m 48 years old. I got to do better. I’m trying. But I know it’s it’s a it’s an uphill battle, man. The sweets keep calling me. They just keep calling. I’m joking about it. But I do have to It’s a real thing. I got to I got to take it, you know, be a little bit more serious. I’m drinking water now. You guys know, you see me with this all the time on the show. I I’m doing much more of this than I used to. All right. Shout out to Carrie Cox in the building. What up, Carrie? Good to see you. Appreciate you as always. Um, uh, me breeze through uh, uh, Sherwin says, “We are not trading bridges or OG.” I hear you. I hear you. Uh, Margaret says, “Ben Simmons is not all that I mean, hey, I I don’t think any of us think he’s that great of a player, but I think it’s his skill set and what he can do and what they think he’ll do being surrounded by this Nick team and the coaching staff. I think they just I shouldn’t say the coaching staff because the Clippers had a really good coaching staff and good players, but I think they feel like he’ll really be somebody that can help this team. Having that guy that can also be a facilitator, a natural facilitator to help Jaylen Brunson and and Deuce McBride um you know, orchestrate things, you know, when they’re out there on the court. And you know, not for nothing, but his height is something that we we might need. Guys, listen, we’re we’re a very good basketball team. We’re going to be a a very good basketball team next year, but we still going to have height issues. We’ve got players that have good height, but we don’t know if they are going to do enough to warrant the playing time in Mike Brown’s rotation. Ben Simmons, say what you will about him, he he he has enough skill set to be out there. How much he plays is another story, but he has enough of a skill set that he can be out there on the court helping the team at certain times. And that’s what the Knicks think, you know, not for nothing, you know, outside of everything that the man has been and he’s not my favorite character player either. He’s gone through a lot. Maybe he’s humbled himself. I don’t know. But the dude is a three-time all-star if I’m not mistaken. It ain’t easy to be an all-star. And to be an all-star three times is saying something. There is a skill set that’s there. Can he get back to that? Probably not. But can he tap into more of it? Maybe. We got to see. And I think that that the Knicks are just taking the biggest gamble. Sometimes in life when you’re trying to reach the promised land, you need a little bit of luck. And they are trying to create their own luck by bringing a player on here that’s not going to cost us a lot of money. If he’s good, great. If he’s not good, he’s just going to sit on the bench or they might outright cut him. But he’s it’s only we’re only talking2 to3 million dollars, guys. Even without Ben Simmons, this is still a 55 win team in my eyes. I’m serious about that. I still think they’re good enough. But with Ben Simmons, he might give them the extra thing they need to beat teams that give us matchup problems. So, I think that’s what they’re thinking. I look at it like that. Um Okay. All right. Okay. Okay. Okay, I’m breezing through. Sorry, guys. Just give me a second. Shout out to No Cap Life’s analyst in the building. Say, “Oh, nang.” H. Oh, okay. You meant on a live show. Well, actually, I’ve done that on a live show, too, once, but I don’t think I stayed that way. But you’re right. You You might be right, brother. I hear you. Um, sincere Israel is in the building. Appreciate you. I don’t know what you said there, but if it’s positive, I’m with it. Um, shout out to Kareem Grant in the building. Salute everyone. And Ron, good afternoon, bro. What up, Kareem? Good to see you my guy. Hope you’re doing well. Uh MG is in the building says, “Yo, what up MG Khaled Pasha in the building said, mark my words. If we get Ben Simmons and he plays 80% of what he was, then we win the championship.” I mean that I believe that you don’t got I don’t doubt that. If Ben Simmons plays at like 80% of what he used to be, oh yeah, with everything else we got going on, we good. But who knows? Shout out to APA AP in the building said SKF. What’s going on AP? Oh, Ltoria B is in the building. What’s going on, Tori? Salute to you. Let’s go. that Carrie that’s been have some kind of mental uh well you know there was some stuff that was going on with with him uh Tori at some time but hopefully he’s gotten over that and he’s got the right help to help him like deal with certain things you know um yeah who knows Nick Yak all these reports I don’t know man I’m just going to let it happen but but something’s going on right when people say that Ben hasn’t ruled out the Knicks as of yet and and the Knicks are still waiting to see what Ben Simmons does. It does look plausible cuz we haven’t signed the a the veteran in person yet. We’re still waiting. Shout out to Luke Skywalker. Visions in the building. Says, “Bum Simmons is a cursed Australian league player that will never win an NBA championship.” Uh, you know, you may be right. I don’t know. I hope you’re right. Wrong. if he comes to the Knicks though. Um, Whiz says, “If we get Ben Simmons and he plays as well as he has over the past years plus stays healthy, sorry, Mitchive, but he becomes expendable.” I mean, why? He might, but why? Why can’t they just carry out the year and try to win a championship together? Okay. All right. I think I got through everything. So, let me just put the um link out there just in case if anybody wants to jump on. Nobody really knows what um had troubled Ben Simmons, right? Um and why he dealt with things in the way he did and why um you know he did suffer from some some issues that he needed to get a little bit more help with. But listen, as a human being, think about it like this. I don’t know that man. I just know that he carried himself a certain way. He was very cocky, right? He was very cocky. But at the time coming into the league, a young man, you know, tall, 6’8, whatever. You know, the girls are talking about him. He’s running around with a Kardashian. He’s an allstar three times feeling really good about himself. He had Philadelphia cooking and maybe you know in some situations that that really went to his head like he felt like but but not necessar I mean yes he had an ego right but also the fact that you feel you’re at a certain level of status and he’s always been there. He was highly touted throughout his young career coming into the NBA. So, he’s always been the man. You come into the even though he couldn’t shoot like that, but he was still always the man. You come into the NBA and you’re on Cloud9. You’re playing at a high level. You got all the fandom, you know, you got a decent, you make good money, decent contract, and you’re a three-time all-star and then all of a sudden you deal with an injury, right? Everybody deals with injuries, but your injury is a back injury and it affects your game and you got to sit out time and then when you come back, you don’t even come back the same way you used to come back. Now, instead of being the man, everybody talking about you, everybody wanting to be around you and and and to his mind, I’m just saying this is all speculation. I don’t know the man. I’m just saying I’m trying to humanize him for other people. All this stuff is going on, you know, and now you’re rehabbing. Everything seems quiet. You don’t have many people as many people around. Maybe you’re not around the Kardashian love the way you used to be. And you just don’t feel wanted the way you used to. And now you can’t even come back healthy the way you want. Now, like, can you be the same Ben Simmons that you was, right? and you keep rehabbing, rehabbing, you come back, you get hurt again or you’re not 100% and you’re just out and then now you got issues with the team you’re on and you want to get out of there. You don’t feel right. Nothing feels like it’s supposed to be. Starts to weigh on you. Maybe you get a little anxiety about it. You go from there and this whole saga, a couple years go by with all this and then you go to Brooklyn and you hope that you could be the man in Brooklyn, but you can’t. Something still don’t feel right. But you got to you got to play the game. I’m an NBA player. I got to I got to say the right things. I got to do the right things to get a chance to be somewhere else. Never quite hits where it needs to hit. You never can quite get back to where you need to to be. And you can never show people that you are still that player that you used to be. Once again, fame is fickle, guys. And when you want to be famous or you think you’re famous and you act like you’re famous, when things start to hit the fan and don’t go the right way and you start to see all the people not showing up for you and when you need them the most, they’re not around and the celebrities of it starts to wear off and you’re not the biggest thing since sliced bread and nobody’s really talking about you, nobody’s really checking for you, starts to affect your psyche, yo, especially and I’m not saying, you know, that he brought any of this on himself or that this is what he was. I’m just telling you, he was kind of cocky. He did act a certain way, which meant he bought into a lot of this. And so when that stuff is not happening, I could assume it would affect your life. I could assume it would impact you mentally and not being able to get healthy the way you used to be. Yeah, that’s a lot, man. So, I still feel for the young man. Um, and I think he’s humbled himself. I think he carries himself better now than he did when he was at the top of his fame. But life being, y’all. So, I just wanted to put that out there. I don’t know. And I do think he’s in a much better place. I don’t think we should make light of anything. We always talk about, you know, how people got to step up uh and take care of themselves and their body, but also you got to take care of your mental health. There’s a stigma attached to men talking about mental health. Definitely a stigma attached to black men talking about their mental health. So, let’s not let’s not belittle it or make it take light of it. You know, we all want to be there for not only ourselves, but our loved ones and other people. And we want people to feel comfortable being able to address any issues they have because this stuff is serious. You know, no matter what, it doesn’t matter what you got. Even if you’re a millionaire, if you’re dealing with mental health, you’re just a millionaire dealing with mental health. The mental health is still there. So, you know, that’s all I wanted to say. Uh uh let me see here. Juan B is in the building. Oh wait, hold on. I just missed it. Uh may maybe I don’t know. That’s that’s another that’s separate from other stuff. Juan B says a lot of people don’t watch any other team or have information regarding players. Just personal opinions and misinformation no matter who the player is. And that’s true. That is true. I hear what you’re saying, Whiz. He says, “My Mitch statement is based on if we can’t agree to an extension before October, another Iheart situation should never occur.” That’s fair. You got to You don’t want to go through that again, then you got to make a decision and make your moves prior to that. Mhm. Yep. Um, let me see here. What did the shout out to Prey, the boss in the building? He says, “Uh, if we must get someone from outside, let’s take a flyer on Banton if we need this big point guard.” That’s interesting. That’s interesting. Nick Yak says, “The most Mitch can get from us is 19 per if we don’t sign extension we can. Wait, Mitch loves being a Nick.” He does. And listen, we give him a lot more leeway here than any other team uh might give him. I’m not Well, maybe there might be a team, but you know, not the way we’ve shown him love for for the six years he’s been with us. So pr also said, “I don’t know why people keep talking about these wash players. We need to get Ben Simmons or Malcolm Brogden. Why? The best ability is availability and we keep focusing on what they used to be.” I hear you, Prey. But my whole thing is the only reason why someone like Ben Simmons or even a Malcolm Brogden comes up now is because we already have our rotation. Our rotate, we got a solid nine to work with already. Ben Simmons or Malcolm Brogden would be 10. So, and we could always find somebody else to fill in and put in that position. you’re not affecting. It’d be different if we were putting all our chips in in these baskets of these guys and like these guys have to be big players for us to be successful. They don’t. If they come out and they can do something for us that takes us to another level, that’s great. But I don’t think the Knicks organization thinks any of these guys are game changers. These are lightning in the bottle guys. You know, you have your team and if you can get something out of these guys that can take you over the top, that’s what you’re looking for. Everything right now is just about can we add somebody else to this team that can give us more than what we expect. You know what I mean? That can do more than what we can expect and and give us an added edge. That’s it. It’s all it is. We can win without them. We will win without them. But if we had them on the team, could they give us something that we we might be missing at a time or two that gives us an added edge? That’s all I think it is. And I’m I don’t think I’m wrong when I feel that way because you got to think about it. There’s not much. We need some stuff, but there’s not like a lot we need. That’s the reason why we’re a championship uh you know contender. That’s why we’re have aspirations of being a championship team because we don’t need that much. We do need some stuff, but we don’t need that much. I mean, if the Nick if this Nick team just goes out there and plays like a team, less individual stuff, less ISO stuff next year and really moves the ball and makes it difficult for the other team to know exactly what we’re doing, we will be great next year without even talking about adding other players. Just putting it out there. We just got to play team basketball. And hopefully Mike Brown can give us that style and take us away from so much of the ISO stuff. The ISO stuff is always going to be there because we got ski a couple skilled players that can do it well. But the point is learning how to be better than what we were and learning how to make other teams uh struggle to defend us. Uh, Sherwin says, “Ron, if we get Ben Simmons, he will start. A healthy Ben Simmons is a top five defender in the NBA.” Maybe so, but I don’t know if he’s going to start Sherwin. I don’t know about that. And he may not have to. You know, you got to understand starting is not that big of a deal anymore, guys. is all about how you intertwine people, how the minutes get played throughout the game, and you know, in some cases, who finishes, but I don’t think starting matters that much. You know what is the big difference if the Knicks start a game with Mitchell Robinson or Deuce McBride and then at the six-minute point, if Ben Simmons is on this team, they bring him in at 6 minutes and he comes in and affects the game positively. It don’t make a difference as long as he gets out there and impacts the game. It don’t matter if he starts or not. It it don’t matter if he plays uh 18 minutes as opposed to playing 24 minutes or 25 minutes as long as those 18 minutes are impactful. And that’s for anybody we get or anybody who might add to the team, right? It don’t matter as long as we get you. We need good basketball play. You think the guy that th those young uh you know men on OKC are talking about, man, if I could play 20 minutes, I could really help the team. No. Whatever minutes they get over there, 10 minutes, 12 minutes, they’re going out there and they’re balling. That’s why OKC won the championship. No matter who they brought in, bought into their defense, bought into their style of play with whatever minutes you get, you go out there and you affect the game. That’s what we need, man. These guys need to humble themselves, step up, and do whatever they need to do for the team. No matter how many minutes they get, whenever you get out there, your minutes should be impactful. They should be positive. H how can I do something to help the team today? Anyway, we’ll see. Uh I got got some of them backstage. Let me bring uh bring my guy up here. Rocking and rolling. You know how we do. Sha, what’s going on my brother? What’s good, Ron, man? What’s going on, man? How you? What’s going on? Uh, condolences and all that good stuff. I seen your stuff. Um, the little post and stuff about your man and stuff like that. Some doses. Appreciate it, man. Thank you. Yeah, man. Life is life is short, man. You never know what’s going to happen today, bro. Yeah. So, we gota Yeah, I know. Way it is. Um, so how how are you feeling on this beautiful Saturday? Man, the weather is so nice. I had to think about it twice. I’m like, do I I’m good, man. I went out for a little bit. I walked around, you know what I mean? Did some ran some errands, came back um in the crib making some shirts and stuff like that and um getting some stuff together and was waiting for you to come on and that’s pretty much what my Saturday was looking like today. You know, I mean, and I’m glad to be on with you. Hey man, appreciate you as always. Um, definitely good show. The other day I got I got to catch uh bits and pieces of it. I was working um you know, I work from home on certain days in the week. I was working um doing some extra stuff watching y’all, man. So, good show as always. Um yeah, man. You know, the big only big thing I mean, we glad that we uh signed uh Muel. I mean, I thought we would probably do that. I mean, um, you know, um, there’s still a way if there is a if, well, Giannis already said that he was gonna stay, but there still was another couple of ways that they could have got him if they really wanted him. And I’m glad that they signed the man with a different coach, a little less minutes, you know, I mean, let’s see what they what he can uh really uh incorporate, you know, I mean, and um, you know, um, and the and the big talks about all these uh veteran I mean, these guys out here and stuff like that, you know, I don’t know why people killing Ben Simmons. He’s not my first choice, but he’s a very good choice. You’re going to, you know, spend $2 million and see if he’s worth it. I mean, I mean, two million. I mean, what? Two, $3 million? Come on, man. And he’s 68. What are you telling me? That he can come over here with guys that can knock down the shot and and he’s not going to have six, seven assists. I got him starting. I put him in the starting unit. I mean, yeah. In my opinion, he made the starting unit go uh Mitchell Robinson. You substitute two nonshooters and you put Mitchell Robinson in the second unit. Yavelli have the E some minutes and let’s get it. Yeah, I mean you could do it multiple different ways and then that’s not I’m not opposed to it. U you know he could be a starter or he could come off the bench. I do see that you know maybe if he was on this team having him as a starter takes a little bit of the load off of Jaylen Brunson, allows him to be more free. So I could see that part of it, right? and he becomes a matchup problem because he has handles. He can get up and down the court. He’s got and I keep saying 6’8. I’m sorry. I forgot. He’s 6’10. Yes. So, yeah. So, his height is is definitely something that that is is uh tough to deal with. Um yes, we know he he could he could really switch one to five. I really at first my big choice was uh Brogden, but after doing a little bit more research and seeing Brogden couldn’t has really been that healthy over the last five years. He hasn’t played more than 60 I think it was 65 or 67 games or something like that. I start uh you know thinking about Ben Simmons man 610 guy that could play up and down one to 10 can definitely rebound the basketball and I mean he could start or you could could finish. You could you could still start Mitch or you can bring Duce in now. You know what I mean? You could bring Duce in to start now and have him come off the bench. Him and Clarkson in the back court in the second unit. You know, you ain’t gonna have no they ain’t gota worry about Ben Simmon shooting with Clarkson on the court. You know what I mean? So, you know, those some things that you can think about and stuff like that. I I think he’s a if they could get him if he wants to come here, I think it could be a good acquisition. Yeah. And you know, another thing that um you think about, like I said, some things are bigger than the game, right? You know, we know Ben has been dealing with certain things, but uh the other thing I wanted to say is let’s not forget, guys, this New York Knick team is a high character team. We got some good dudes over here. So maybe putting Ben around good dudes like Jaylen Brunson, Josh Hart, being around Macau Bridges again, um you know, might help him. He might be in a much better thanks or a locker room for his health, his mental health, and you know, really help him be comfortable with guys who who not only enjoy playing the game, play it at a high level, but they’re good people, right? So, that might help him too, you know, and that might also put him in a situation where he starts to love the game again. You know, I’m not saying he was around bad people. I’m just saying, let’s call a spade a spade. The Knicks have stayed away from bad character guys for the most part. They’ve invested in high character people. So, this is how it can pay off for you. Just a thought. I’m just throwing it out there. You know, I’m being the devil’s advocate of how there’s good things to this and how the best thing I keep saying, no matter what we’re saying and and Sha is saying the same thing, guys. He if he comes here, he already the writing is on the wall. And that’s the reason why I think that if he’s still considering the Knicks, he hasn’t necessarily done it yet because he knows the Knicks already got their nine players. Could he be a part of the team? Yes. But he ain’t coming here to be the savior. He’s not coming here to get a lot of minutes. He might get a lot of minutes, but I’m saying he’s not coming here guaranteed, right? He might he might end up with more minutes, right? We got guys here. So, he knows that. And I guess that’s what he’s considering. But understand the flip side is if he comes here, he knows what it is. He knows what it is. So, he just got to get in where he fits in and he might fit in nicely. And if he can listen, I I’mma tell you guys right now, this is what keeps intriguing people. I know I’ve seen the worst of Ben Simmons. I get it. But if you can tap into what he does well and add that to this New York Knicks team, um, we are going to be flying. That is that is the truth. If we can get the good Ben Simmons, doesn’t have to get the great. He was great. If we can get good Ben Simmons with this Nick team, oh man, sky’s is the limit. If we if we can get on Ben Simmons because the more time that he gets to playing with a team that can really execute that, he knows what it is. He I mean, he hasn’t got a ring. I don’t believe he has a ring. So, I know he sees that this team is striving for a ring. So, I know that must be something in his mind. Can he bring himself good enough to be that guy that that um is is um what is the word am I looking for? Um the the bigger piece um you know that that that that diamond in the rough you know I mean he come in here and be that that thing like oh man Ben Simmons can he that’s a because if he comes here and performs his next contract he might get still get a double digit contract from here. You know what I mean? He’s getting a small contract now. He’s got the one of the biggest contracts back in the days. He had what was he 20 million? He had one of the biggest contracts back in the days a couple of years back. Well, he got a big contract. But anyway, make more he could get another he could still extend his his his life in as an NBA player at 29 if he comes over here and plays with the New York Knicks and he execute. I mean, if he gets a ring here, he’ll he’ll probably sign for almost nothing again. 101 12 million, he’ll probably stay here again. It’s not I mean I’m not saying it’s for money but he he got a I mean I’m not digging in nobody pocket. I ain’t trying to say how much of a bag he got and all that stuff but he do got a bag. You know if you get a ring at New York just like with Mitch you get a ring I don’t think you looking for $25 million no more. I think you take 17 15 something like that. You on a championship team and this is a team that you’ve been with for a little bit of time. He come over here and he executed in that second unit or start end up starting in the first unit. Who knows? Mhm. Yeah. I I agree. I agree. I’m just looking at some some Ben Simmons workout highlights and I know guys I um I I don’t even want to show them to y’all because y’all gonna be like, “Well, this is practice with no defense, you know, no fans.” I get it. But the the point that I’m that I’m looking at when I look at this is that when he is just able to gather his thoughts and go out there and shoot the jump shot look good. It’s it’s it’s splashing net. It’s not like nasty shots. I mean, he’s he’s wet in the net, right? But it’s all about keeping your focus. Can the Knicks work with Ben to be able to keep his focus so that way he can go out there and and and get back into loving basketball because the whole thing about being a good shooter or being good at anything takes focus, right? It’s repetition. It’s and and when it comes to shooting, it’s about form and keeping the same shot angle no matter what’s going on. No matter the defense, no matter the fans screaming at you, you got to keep being locked in with that same shot, that same form. That’s how you get the same results. I could never really I was pretty decent as a shooter growing up, but I could never like get to that high level that the greatest shooter is like, you know, you don’t miss. So, I could never do that because maybe I lack the the strength in my brain to focus that much. How can the Knicks, if he came here, help him get back to that supreme focus? Just blocking everything out. The rim, my shot, it’s what I’m trying to do. I don’t hear nothing else. That’s that’s and maybe the Knicks feel confident that if they could just have him get back to the love of the game and focus on that, they can get this type of, you know, action out of him, this type of production. I don’t know. We’ll see. Uh, you know, I said I wasn’t going to do it. I’m going to do it anyway. Why not? I know it’s it’s all hypothetical and Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We’ve seen Mitch hit threes. I get it. I know. All right, Craig. I’ll show it. Uh, all right. Hold on. Here we go. Uh, all right. Here we go. Yeah. Why not? You know what I mean? Like it’s just all about focus. Let me get this up here. Squeeze me. Show it, Ron. I’m showing it. All right. Here we go. So, this is him. You know, he’s in good shape. Look at that shot. That’s wet. Look at him. Good form. It’s wet. I mean, granted, when you’re in the game, you don’t have a lot of time to square yourself as good, but he, you know, if he can just focus, right, and forget the defender. He’s 610. He shoots over most defenders. He can do this left-handed. I know this is slow and you don’t have the pressure of somebody coming at you, but it’s the whole point. If he could just focus, he could do this. I mean, he’s some of these he is splashing the net. Mhm. Mhm. Yes, buddy. This is the best I’ve ever seen him shoot like with his form, the way it looks. It’s not It’s not the great like there’s lefties who have beautiful form. This ain’t the most beautiful form because it’s a little off, but it’s good for him. This is the best I’ve ever seen him with a form shoot. So, you know, you got you got to take it for what it is. It still looks pretty good. Come on, man. Bring bring that to New York right there. The change see what he could do. The difference with him right now is if he could come and execute anything that looks like that right there, Ron. Anything that looks like that right there. Hold on. Let me come on. Anything that looks like that right there, that’s that that just if he could I’m this one of the reasons why I say starting because switchable defense him Sims, Muel, and OG can help cover up what Jaylen Brunson and cat deficiencies are. weak on the wings, you know, I mean that they he rebounds the basketball, he can assist the basketball, and if he can make do shots like that, you talking about if he can get a a little triple double every night, come on, man. Eight points, seven seven assists, nine rebounds, you know, I mean, you know, damn near soft triple double every night. But those guys on the front court, that’ll make Jaylen Brunson even better. One thing that that that hindered Jayen Brothers so much last year, especially in the playoffs, was the the half court line. When you get it towards half court, that’s when everybody converged on him. Everybody attacked him at that half point line. He had nobody to give the ball to to help him distribute the ball. The high pick and roll would be real high up on the pickle, top of the key and stuff like that. things that would, you know, if you bring if you bring Simmons in. One thing that we missed from de uh not so much not so much shooting from Danchenzo was it was his on ball p uh uh pursuit and his pushing the pace and stuff like that. We missed that because that gave Jaylen Brunson time to set up to uh uh use his three-point shots. Usually last year if and maybe it’s just me watching too much basketball, but a lot of Jaylen Brunson open three-point shots was in the corner and a lot of them was after timeouts or uh uh or or foul shots, you know? I mean, it was breaking action. Was it wasn’t a con it wasn’t fluid, you know? I mean, it wasn’t like they was coming down and then throw Jaylen Brothers and Jay brothers and catching and then I mean a lot of them was him dribbling the ball, dribbling the ball, get the ball out, get the ball back, dribble the ball, dribble the ball. where everybody at instead of somebody let him get free drive bring the defense on them to to so they can converge and kick the ball out to your shooters. I mean, I think that’s going to be a big big thing for their offense this year to come into for to to come into fruition because we got to shoot this OG 30 something% 38%. Muel 37 38% from the from the corners. Uh Jaylen Brussen 38 39 40%. Cat uh he need to shoot 10 12 three-pointers a night. That’s what I think. But if with Cat playing, if Mitch is starting, he do another six seven eight. You know, he could get up to 40%. you know, that’s that’s that’s where it’s at, man. Now, we have shooters in the in the second unit, too. So, let’s get it, man. Yeah. No, I mean, I I hear you. I hear you. Listen, uh there’s there’s definitely some stuff that that we can do if if if things can work out the right way and and and if we can get right. Um I we we might just have to I don’t know, man. I know. I I I’ve been up in the air and on the fence about it, but I I don’t know. And shout out to Miguel P. Ben was traumatized by You know what? Ben P just reminded me and I forgot about this guys. That was already that was very traum traumatic for Ben as well. Ben was traumatized by Doc Rivers who threw him under the bus for the playoff series loss. He was so young that I can’t believe out of that. Yeah. Like guys, that was big. They was the one answering the TV talking about him and laughing at him. That was I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I hope that just but they that’s what they did. That’s that’s I didn’t think that was good then. I like man that’s bad. He was he was bad like he couldn’t even he was so devastated that he didn’t even want to take a layup bro. He was wide open and didn’t want to shoot the ball. Yo that’s not Come on, man. You you got to know how bad that his psyche was at that time that he didn’t broke him man. Broke man I said this a couple of nights ago man. It broke. It broke all everything and it twisted him up a little bit. Then he got hurt. Now he got it in the head and now his body hurt. His body hurt and it’s in the head now too. Now he got to he got a he got to come back from both of these things now. But he’s older now. He’s been in the league a little long time. You know what I mean? Um you know his back still acts up a little bit of stuff like that. But you know the Knicks ain’t looking for him to play uh you know 82 games. If we could get 60 60 games from him, 58 some 58 good games from him or something like that plus the playoffs. That switchable defense with him and and OG at the top where you got Hyde Brunson now, man, that’s gonna be killer Dyler, man. Any one of those guys could pick up a three, a two or three or four, you know, I mean, some of them can pick up fives, you know? OG could pick up a five. Uh Sims, if you there, he can pick up a five. You know what I mean? They can pick up fives, you know? I mean, it just changed the whole the the the dynamic of their defense now. I mean, they don’t have to struggle about keep going over and under picks and and not getting around picks. If you watch McCroll last year, everybody’s like, “Oh, his defense and all this stuff.” I I think he never went through that many picks, you know? I mean, uh uh uh Tib’s style of basketball on defense is playing the one-on-one, you know what I mean? and and to get over if you could just switch over or or I forgot the name that they call it bio cutting or whatever that name of that thing that they talking about. That’s what we need right now. That’s the new league. This ain’t this ain’t uh Patrick Ewan days when we switching and I mean going over the cut and going under the cut and knocking people over, hitting people with forearms. We ain’t doing that no more in the league this like that. So if that’s the change then let’s make it happen. Yep. Yep. David Smith says Embiid also threw Ben Simmons under the bus. Terrible. Yeah. But let me tell you something. Yeah. Yeah. Both of them. Coach and Embiid. Yeah. Embiid is not Embiid is not the dude to to be do the the the Embiid is is so fortunate that he has such a high level of talent that Philadelphia was willing to wait for him and they were willing to tank for him so much that they obviously had to change the rules because they were tanking at the highest level. um he’s fortunate that the team was able to tank at that level to get the players they got to put around him and that they waited for him because he was dealing with some really terrible injuries. And we know like look I mean character-wise Embiid is not the greatest person either. You know what I mean? So uh that that just that’s terrible though. And and actually David you should be you should be hoping that the Knicks get Ben Simmons because that will definitely help Cat. like Ben Simmons is the type of guy you want on the team to help Cat get the ball more and in different spots. So yeah, I wouldn’t I wouldn’t uh say it’s a pipe dream as of yet. I mean, and it could happen and it could definitely help Cat. Um, so we’ll see. Uh, let me see. Let me put another one up there. Now you got me you guys got me all in in in the in the bag now. Here we go. This Now I know this is with the Nets. I get it. But but this is still after Philadelphia. He was already he’s had already dealt with some injury issues. So, and and this is not him at his highest level, but still impactful, right? Here’s getting a little rebound there. Put back with the right hand, you know, moving around a little little bit, little something. Uh passing it out, getting a little quick shot. Boom. Whatever. Okay. Um, look look at how quick he got off that and put him with a little body and then still took it out like I mean that’s the bad part that he he was right there at the rim and won’t shoot. But it is what it is, right? Backing down a little bit here. He’s got a little right-handed hook shot. Hey. Okay. Uh, right here getting the rebound, tapping it out. Hey, see make something happen. Uh, watch out now with a pushing it up the court. Look at that pass. Hey, I see you. Oh, get it, young fella. Let’s go out here. The break out to him for the alley. He ain’t really up there dunking it like that, but he’s laying it up. Okay, little quick pass. I mean, these are simple passes, but the point is he moves the ball around. He makes stuff happen. Oh, watch yourself. You didn’t see it? Hey. Okay. Out here with the defense. I’m 610. You see it? Blocked. Oh, watch yourself. I still got a little something. Oh, you ain’t ready. This is before Net’s days, okay? This is already after he’s already been dealing with injuries, right? Ball a little fake handoff. Didn’t give the handoff. Didn’t set the screen. Hey, get that young fella. That’s all I’m talking about right there, man. See, with with the guys we got that’s what I’m saying. like you know just little things like that will help this team and the movement cuz we are very stagnant when it comes to stuff and we are trying didn’t he play with male too uh yeah Muel was there with him yeah so there you go so I’m just saying guys I mean listen I look it it’s not the the the pick that everybody would want but we don’t know what we’re gonna get from anybody we add with with that that pick. So, you know, it’s a chance. It’s a chance. I mean, I want Landry Sham, but some people don’t want Landry Sham. I don’t know why, but okay. Listen, it is what it is. I I like Landry Sham. The reason why I didn’t say not that I don’t want that I don’t want him is um I don’t think he’s going to get no minutes. But then again, he might he might get in front of those uh the 11 and 12 guys, Tyler Kohic and um and Pone, you know, he might get in front of those two guys, you know, I mean, because he’s a veteran. So, he might be the 11th man and those other two guys will be pushed back to 12 and 13th or something like that, you know? So, but um spot minutes for him. I mean, if he want to come here and he stay here, I’m not opposed to it, but I think the Knicks, you know, I I want a big guard. If we get a guard, I want a big guard. That’s another reason why I wanted Brockton. 65 guy. Uh could play defense. Uh used to be a 5040 90 type of dude, you know what I mean? Um uh can score the basketball, shoot the threes, lay the ball up, pass the ball, all those good things that we all looking to do. So that’s that’s one of the reasons why I liked him. Um uh but I don’t want to go and get somebody small because we’re already small enough. We got Jaylen Brunson. That’s enough. You know, we got Deuce McBride. That’s enough. I mean, let’s get somebody 67, 65, 66. I don’t know if um what’s his name? Coffee. Uh the the forward guy that played with Brown before. Um yeah, Coffee. Yeah. I I I something to look at. But who where he’s going to play minutes at? Where he’s going to get minutes at over Josh Hart, you know what I mean? Or or is he going to get minutes over Clarkson or Yavelli? Because that’s those positions that you’re going to have to play him in. So I don’t see that happening. You know, only if if we get a move, I hope I mean I I I’m more starting to lean more towards Simmons now if that’s the pick that I mean I’m I’m okay with PJ Tucker. You want to get PJ Tucker? because I think we got a 10-man rotation. Plus, we still have time minutes for uh uh Tyler and and Pomeone. Now, if we put PJ Tucker, you know what I mean? Now, PJ Tucker could be all the way at the end and now every so over we could, you know, put those guys in to get a little bit of burn or something like that because we get another guy, those guys gonna be pushed back to 13, 14, 12, 13, you know what I mean? So, yeah. I I think I mean I I like the whole PJ Tucker thing too because I think that he helps the team and I think he’s a great influence on guys, but I think the flip side is we were really fortunate last year, bro. I mean, should this past year have to deal with the injuries. So, and we can’t know for certain that that’s not going to happen this year. So, I I I think they need to have as many workable, good, healthy player bodies out there as they can because you never know if you’re going to need to to call on somebody. Um, so that’s the only thing I worry about. I’d rather have it than not have it and not be able to get it cuz we now we cuz you know once we go into the season our money’s going to be dried up. We ain’t going to be able to do anything. So, I’d rather have as much as we can have that we can play if we need to. The flip side is like a guy like Coffee or even Ben Simmons. Nick Yak says, “Whose minutes has Ben taken to do all this?” Mitch is more important to us than Ben would be. Just because of the height doesn’t mean necessarily that those are the minutes that they’re going to pull extra from. I think that if anything, uh, the the people’s minutes that would suffer would be Deuce. Uh, but, you know, that’s why Deuce has to earn his minutes. And after what we saw this past season, Deuce needs to earn his minutes. You know what I mean? He played good defense in the playoffs, but his offense was lacking. And we need more. If we’re going to try to win a championship, we need more out of We gave up Dante Devenzo. We needed Deuce to step up. We needed extra points from somewhere. So, Deuce has to be that. And if we’re not going to get that, then we need some type of versatility in a guy like a Ben Simmons could, you know, could give. The flip side is you might say, I I said it could affect Josh Hart’s minutes. Josh Hart was averaging around 36, 37 minutes, 40 minutes, whatever it was. I don’t I don’t think Josh Hart needs to play that many minutes anyway. I think Josh Hart actually needs to play less minutes to be a little bit more effective. Josh Hart has taken a little bit of a a backseat with regards to his defense because one, he’s cheating all the time trying to get us rebounds because we didn’t have enough rebounding on the team. And two, because of the lack of defense in certain circles, he’s also helping cheating to help out um and which is affecting him and his own man. Helping cover somebody else’s man when you should be focused on your man, but you can’t because you know we have some liabilities in this new system from Mike Brown and what we’re trying to do. Maybe that focus will change. He doesn’t have to worry about drop coverage and other things to help out other guys. he can really be a little bit more offensive minded. He can still focus on getting rebounds. He may not have to cheat as much to help out. And so therefore, I don’t And plus, I just think Josh Hart was tired, man. I mean, I don’t care if he can do it. We saw that the minutes affected the play. So maybe instead of playing high 30, almost 40 minutes, get them to around 32, 30 minutes. It doesn’t matter. You do whatever you need to do for the team. I take minutes away from that. Take minutes away from Josh. Take some minutes away from Deuce and take some minutes, you know, that you might have available for the flow of the game. Whatever comes naturally. The game, you know, is going to happen a certain way and the minutes will just come the way they come. That’s it, right? And every game is not going to be uh cut in stone. Like if if he plays 18 minutes one game, don’t mean he’s playing 18 minutes the next game. He could play 12 minutes the next game. whatever the game dictates is how his minutes will will um will, you know, happen. I think that’s the way it should be looked at. And I think that’s kind of how Mike Brown’s going to play it because he’s got different he wants to play a certain way and he he wants guys to get after it, but he wants them to be healthy and give their all. You know, the other thing we talked about with Josh Hart, some people have mentioned Josh Hart sometimes loafs. You know why he loafs? Because he’s saving his energy because he has to play so many damn minutes. play a little less minutes and we’ll get more impact and more effort from Josh Hart. We want all out Josh Hart for less minutes. That’s what I’m thinking. Um Craig says if Simmons is in New York training, the deal might be dropping next week. We’ll see. I don’t know. Um Bodega says Ben, Lyles, or Shambit in that order. Okay. I like Lyles, too. I mean, definitely Mike Brown is familiar with them. Hey, L. Damn it is in the building. Let’s go. Pew pew. Shout out to you, L. Appreciate you. Hope you are doing well. Part of the SKF army salute. Um, okay. Uh, Josh was awful in the Pacer series. He was, uh, he had a really tough time. Um, Sherwin says, “Ben will make the players go from 35 minutes to 30. Josh’s biggest problem is size.” I’m cool with that. I think that’s where these guys should be at. 30 to 32 minutes is where they should be. Stop the 35 and and more. As I said before, to me, it’s not about guys getting injured. It’s about effectiveness. The more you play a guy every night, the less effective they’re going to be. They need to play less minutes to give you more impact, give you more effort on defense and be at their best on offense. We’ll see. I wouldn’t be mad at that either. Wolverine, limit Josh minutes to 25 minutes per game or trade him. 25 minutes is fine for Josh. 30 is great, but 25 is fine, too. Josh is not The way we use Josh as an impact player is because of necessity. You know what I mean? We we needed the most minutes out of Josh because we didn’t have anybody else better to put out there. And I’m that’s not a knock on Josh. Josh knows who he is. Josh knows he’s a defensive player who’s a great rebounder. Um and he can give us a little offense, but he knows what his limitations are. A guy like that really should not be playing 30 plus minutes on an NBA team. He should be around 30 or a little less, but still have good impact. He’s a solid, if not great, role player, but that don’t mean you play 30 plus minutes. You know what I mean? You don’t you don’t start him again this year, Von? No, no, not at all. Not gonna do it. Yeah, I like him though, but I I just don’t think he should be starting. I think I think he should coming off the bench. I I think his minutes come down dramatically. Um, I don’t think he gets, you know, like I was, we was just talking about this last night. Uh, uh, you know, the Knicks last last season, it was like number one, number three, number four, eight, nine, 14. These guys was playing heavy heavy minutes. And I mean, top playing in the league of over 400 players of how many 300 and some how many plays it is in the league in the G, whatever it is. Um, that’s a lot of minutes, you know. I mean, that’s a lot of minutes. So, let’s get them down to uh effectiveness minutes. I think that’s the whole scheme this year because where effective time last year I looked at it as effective time. When they were effective, they played in spurts. They play defense in spurts. They play offense in spurts. They’ll run 15, 20 points on you real quick and shut you down on defense for two, three, four minutes. And I mean, a road to get the league or cut back from being down by 14, 15. the team was very uh u you know uh um they did that a lot last year. So I think that could we’ll continue to do that and build off of that now because now they have people so so these guys don’t have to play those many minutes those assessor excessive minutes like last year you know uh back down to 31 minutes or so where uh uh you could see Clarkson coming in and getting 28 minutes or something like that. Josh Hard 28 30 minutes. If Ben Simmons come here gets, you know, 18 minutes or something like that. Deuce 22 24 26 minutes. Java uh uh Haka Party, you know, I mean 18 20 minutes a piece, you know, 18 18 something like that or something like that. It’ll give some flow and some fluidity with the team and then we’ll get to see what the young guys or the secondyear guys that we have on the team have because now we if we can do like we did last year and score heavy baskets with our starting unit. Starting unit last year scored about 100 points a game. If we can if we could limit, you know, if our second unit could come here and give us, you know, we we were screaming for 20 points last year. they come in here and give us 30 points this year, you know, we we’d be a different team. You know what I mean? Different different looking team. Yeah, we would. And listen, I say this about Josh. Like I said, I I really appreciate Josh. Josh is my favorite player on the Knicks. And I’m still saying he needs to come off the bench and play 30 or less minutes. So, it’s not about it’s not about um you know, anything other than what’s best for the team. And I think what’s best for best for him and the team. What’s best for the team is that he plays 30 minutes or less. And what’s best for him is that he plays 30 minutes or less. Because guess what? You get impact, Josh. You get full throttle, Josh. Josh affects the game, man. But a a guy who’s playing 3540 minutes don’t affect the game the same way with the LA. He’s an energy guy. How do you keep your energy by playing uh you know uh a certain level of minutes? you know, that’s how you can control your energy and give the best. So, I hope I hope Mike Brown and the rest of his coaching staff understand that about him and I hope the Nick organization tries to put that towards him and he gets it. Uh because the other thing too is like what took place in that Indiana series puts a bad cloud over Josh. like all of a sudden everything that Josh did. Josh had if not I think he did Josh had his best season in the NBA this past season, right? We overlook it. The dude had he was averaging like 14 points, like almost 10 rebounds, like around four assists or five close to four assists, I think, maybe a little over four assists, something like that. This is the best Josh has ever been. And we look at it like, oh man, Josh, man, we need to move on from Josh. And Josh like, yo, Josh was great this year. It’s just when we got to that playoff series after playing all of these minutes and then going up against a team that moved the ball so effectively and believed in themselves a certain way, we had no answers for them defensively and they had great answers for us. They decided to trap and blitz us and make us make some really tough decisions. We all know that Josh Hart is already kind of erratic with the ball. He already throws the ball all over the place. Now you go with a team’s game plan that says, you know what, we want to force them to make a lot of passes. make them make tough decisions. And the thing about the Knicks offense was that we were so predictable. Everybody knows this. Tib’s offense is predictable. And even our movements down to our top players are predictable. When Jaylen Bunson would get trapped or blitz in a certain spot, we already know where he’s going to pass the ball. You know, when these guys turn off the corner and do their little curls under the baseline, they’ve seen the play a hundred times. They know exactly where the pass is going. That’s why we were so predictable and we looked terrible. So hopefully we can change a lot of that, man. We can change a lot of that and and give us a little deception. Go out there, move the damn ball, believe in each other as teammates, right? And let’s make it difficult for these teams to stop us. We they already had a hard time stopping us. We were top five in offense in the league. Imagine if we move the ball, right, and make them work out there. They won’t know what to do against the Knicks. That’s what I’m saying. it, you know, some of we we we we all talked about it, you know, on the post and the pregame and stuff like that about how our offense is and and uh you know, when we get to 30 assists and stuff like that, uh you know, the team is, you know, uh elite, you know, we know that and I I believe the the the things that we will see this year will be those things that were more lackluster last year. You know, they’ll be spit shine this year. they’ll be and I mean ready to be uh out there to be uh you know witness because I think uh you know this team doesn’t need much and I I don’t want to take away from this but this was only the first year that this that Mitchell Robinson played with Cat Cat played with male male played with Jaylen Brunson again or Josh Hard again. You know, this was the first year for all of that stuff for him to work with Deuce and stuff like that with Cat to work with uh uh uh uh Landry Shamouth, you know, I mean, uh Precious Aua to work with um uh uh Landry Shamouth, you know. So, you know, the the these guys didn’t play and they still uh you know, got to the accomplishment of 51 wins, you know, I mean, two games away from the finals, you know what I mean? So, I mean, you know, that’s good. You know what I mean? any other team you would have been like n you we you know we before the the the beginning of the season I remember doing podcast and stuff like that and everybody said I’d be happy if we make it to the playoffs if we can make it to the playoffs this year we did that we did exactly what a lot of people said we were going to do we did it so why you not happy about it I was I wanted more of course as a fan I wanted more I wanted to go all the way of course I wanted more to be so close because you don’t know the next year you never know what’s going to happen next year in the NBA and stuff like that, you know what I mean? So, you know, uh we were close enough that we could have had it and we just couldn’t get there. Yeah. No, that’s a fact that Sha you were not lying. That’s exactly what happened. Like we we have to be thankful and appreciate the strides that this team is doing every year. Look, I know guys, I know this year was a tough one because we saw it open up for us, right? But we have been better every year. So the expectation is to continue to get better. We not going backwards. We can’t afford to. All right. So we got to keep getting better. So next year it’s it’s we got to get into the Eastern I mean this year should I say I keep saying next year. It will be next year. It’s going to be 2026 but we starts this year. We got to get into the Eastern Conference Finals. And for a lot of people it’s championship or bust. In my mind in my eyes it’s it’s NBA finals are bust. I I can’t say that we guaranteed to win a championship. I don’t know who we gonna play in the NBA finals. If we get there, we don’t like but if we get there that that’s we have a good shot cuz that is not easy to get to the NBA finals. And if you can get there, you got a shot. And if this Nick team with everything that’s happening, don’t you guys notice that every single year, no matter what happens with this team, no matter who we add, no matter what’s going on, every year we always talking about other teams. Oh, hey man. Well, you know, Atlanta got better. Orlando’s going to be healthy. We all in the mix, man. Come on, man. Let’s Let’s roo for our team and don’t worry about nobody else out there. Let them worry. I keep saying this. This is my new thing. Let them worry about us, okay? Let them worry about us because that’s the bottom. The Knicks are a good team now and they’re going to be better next year. That this is the rest of the NBA got to start worrying about us. And none of that what we saw last year 0 and10 against the top teams in the league. No, it’s not happening this year. I’m I’m telling you right now, it 0 and10 is not happening against the best teams in the league this year coming up. 100%. I would I’m not betting no money because I I ain’t really a gambler like that. But I’m telling you it ain’t not it’s not happening. Even if we do struggle with certain teams at certain times, there’s going to be times where we get them. We’re gonna get them. So, keep in mind it’s gonna be a new year. It’s a new day. I’m ready. I’m hyped. I It It’s I mean, if you’re a Nick fan, you already see what we didn’t have last year, the start of last year, and what we’re going to start the year with this year. Knock on wood. Mitchell Robinson this year will be starting not either in the starting unit or in the in the in the second unit, but he’ll be on the team this year at the start of the season. We also acquired Yabiselli. Good guy. Can play some defense, can grab some rebounds, could definitely throw it on you, and definitely has outside shot. Something that we wanted from Precious Cher. He is precious mature like with a three-point shot. You know what I mean? And we got Clarkson, a guy that can really turn it up. And like I always say, when you come to New York, like he’s coming to New York right now, he wants to make a payday. He wants to get another payday. He’s going to come here and if he elect if he comes over here and becomes the sixth man of the year, you think the Knicks going to be able to keep him next year? If he come over here, if he come over here be the sixth man of the year or the New York Knicks, you think he gonna be the New York Knicks next year? Unless we win the championship. If we win the championship, we might bring him back. But you think so? I’m just saying this what can happen if you come here and you perform. New York stage is a big stage. If you perform on this, just like this, the this song says, if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. If you come here in in New York City, Ben Simmons and now Clarkson, if Clarkson come here and get 16 points in the second unit, uh, uh, five assists, four rebounds, and two steals, and make and electrify the garden in two or three games this year with 40 points, you think he ain’t g, you think he g you think you gonna be here next year for 3.2, how much money you getting this year? $2.5 million. So, let’s let’s be let’s be satisfied with what we got for right now. So, let’s hope that this is the year that we can get this thing because it looks real good. It’s all in our favor right now. We got a solid 10-man rotation. We got a guy that wants to extend the rotation and we got guys that’s ready to play some basketball. You see some of these guys out here right now. You see the the picture of Cat and Mitchell Robinson. These guys looking diesel. These guys look like they went up to Adica like I mean I said that last night. They looking like they looking like they looking like I did what I used to be like 21 22 that man I’m just saying that’s that’s incentive. You seen a lot of these guys out here shooting the basketball Jaylen Brun all these guys already out there Duce McBride. They already out here practicing already. They already ready to get ready because they know they were so close. They didn’t want to get closer. And they got a team this year with a solid bench staying healthy, man. This could be one of the best years the Knicks had in a long time, man. Very true. And and and you know, I get it, y’all. I know everybody, all these teams got better. Detroit got better. Orlando, uh, Atlanta, um, the Cavs are already better. I get it. There’s there’s there’s teams that got better. We got better, too. But that don’t mean the Knicks didn’t get better. We got way better. And this is what I still think that y’all are not getting. Y’all don’t know what the Knicks are going to be this year. You got to see it. Y’all Y’all haven’t seen it yet. We not I’m telling you. I know it’s hard to wrap your head around it because you can only It’s like me when I like whenever you know you go apartment hunting or a house hunting. I guess you walk in and you see a blank room and I’m like, I can’t see it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Can I put it together? I’m not one of them people. I can’t. You give me You better give me a furnace. I remember one time I almost bought a house with everything. I almost took the furnish like the furnish house. I said, “How much it is for the stuff cuz I can’t see it.” I’m like, “You know what? Y’all got to witness and see what this Nick team is and understand we’re going to be different. The defense ain’t going to be as defensive. We going to be offensive. How is this going to play out? How we going to move? How we going to run? How we going to get around? How’s the ball going to move? How how we going to start, you know, getting things orchestrated? The the schemes like I already talked about it the other day on on walking and talking. You know, shout out to DJ Ace on uh X. You know, he’s a very, you know, good Nick fan, a very smart guy. Um he he likes breaking down X’s and O’s and stuff and looking into how the game is played. One of the things he put up there was Mike Brown’s style of offense. You know, it it’s not Mike Dantony’s style, but it it has its own little sim similarities to it, right? Mike Danton style, you guys remember when he was with the Knicks and who where he’s coached other places as a head coach. It’s 7 seconds or less, right? Get the ball up the court and make your move. Have it happen in 7 seconds or less. That way, you still got a bunch of time left on the shot clock. you can get an offensive rebound and get more time to put something back up, but you’re scoring and putting you’re getting more possessions and putting, you know, making the defense react fast. Play harder. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because that’s what he had to do cuz, you know, a lot of Mike Danton’s teams didn’t have no defense, right? So, he’s like, I’mma put pressure on them offensively so that way they work harder on their end and it takes away from their offense so we don’t have to work as hard to stop them because they’re a little tired and winded because we’re putting the pressure on them. That’s an interesting strategy, right? But Mike Brown’s thing is when he when the offense is being created, when you get down the court, when you pass the ball, it’s 0.5 seconds or less, right? That means you got 0.5 seconds to get to the hole. Get the ball, get to the hole. So that’s his style of doing it. That’s how he gets guys moving and playing with a higher pace. So that’s interesting, guys. We haven’t seen this happen yet. So we about to see how this works. Um, so yeah, stay tuned guys because this ain’t the same old Nicks. It’s not. And and I said this last it let’s be give this guy also 20 games like we all used to give Tom Tipp. Let’s give him the first 20 games to see how they I think the offense is going to be a different type of basketball. I think it’s going to be a more uptempo push the pace. Another reason why I think why they’re so highrung on on Simmons on uh because he he knows how to push the pace. But, um, I think that’s what they want to do, man. I think they want to, you know, it’s going to be more offense. I think we’re going to be, uh, offensively the third in the league, top three in the league. And I think our defense will be somewhere around, you know, uh, eight, nine or 10, seven, eight, nine or something like that in the spirit, something like that. Maybe may if we could get if we could get top five and top five, it’s I it’s it’s the it’s the championship of bust, you know, I mean, if we come out the box like that where our defense is is get is shutting teams down to under under 103 points a game and we’re and we’re scoring 117 that that’s where I want to see if I see that. Well, who gonna beat us? I sh I mean, that’s great. I I don’t see it. I don’t I don’t think we got a top 10 defense. I think we could be top 15 though. I think I think so. I think I think that I think that could be anything. That could be 11, whatever. And that’s not bad, guys. Listen, if you have a top 15 defense anywhere in there and you got a top five offense and that changed everything. Knicks could be top two. They could be number one depending on what happens this year. We That’s That’s good enough to win a championship. You got to play some defense, but you don’t have to be the best at defense. As we already talked about, and I hate to use them as an example, but it’s real. Indiana had a chance to win the championship, guys. So, and Indiana is definitely not known for defense. I went over it about a month ago when we looked at their their playoff stats. We looked at their regular season stats. They were top 15 defense. So, hey, and they almost won it all against the number one defense in the league. So, uh yeah, and I I I I’m sorry. I know their offense is incredible. They already bought in. They got the movement down. They have one of the best offensive um systems in the league, but I don’t think their offensive talent top to bottom is better than the Knicks. So, the Knicks just have to learn to play better basketball. They learn have to learn how to better offense. a offense that creates problems, creates matchup issues, and and and makes it difficult for the defense. That’s part of the reason why we didn’t get to the success we needed to. We don’t make it difficult for the defense. We’re too predictable. No matter if we’re that good, they knew what we were doing and it made it easier for them to stop us. We have to be less predictable. Facts. Facts. Wiz in the building. What up, Lee? Facts. Salute. Salute. Salute. What up, my brother? missed you last week, man. What I’m What were you off last week? Cuz I I was like searching. I don’t get notified. I was on vacation. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. Good. You need your rest. Plus, you’re walking a lot. You’re doing the walking and talking a lot. Good thing you’re not dancing. Walk is better than dance. Okay. All right. I’ll keep walking. All right. Okay. Um, so, uh, first of all, I’m looking at the likes. I’m looking at people. I don’t know if they know like like button. What does the like button look like? That’s the first thing. What does the like button look like? People forget it. I, you know, sometimes I forget it. It looks a little something like this. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Okay. I just I smash mine cuz I’m looking at like 90 something people in the chat and I’m seeing less than 50. I’m like, what up for that? Come on people. This is some great stuff, man. That’s some sh peace and love, my brother. Yo. Um, sorry. I’m I’m um you know trying to um gather my thoughts here. But my first thing I came up with was again I’m I’m in the Ben Simmons hive. Yes. And I like Mitch and I’m not trying to replace Mitch. But I’m looking at Ben Simpson in two ways. First of all, two years ago, my biggest determination was we have a charact. And it’s not about getting him even though he had talents and he was got skills. is about stopping our competitors from getting him. Drew Holiday. I was like, “Do not let Bassin get Drew Holiday.” What happened? Boom. They got Drew. They won a championship. It’s Sometimes that’s better to play defensively by stopping somebody else from getting him. That’s one move. Two, if Ben does step in that center once in a while, let’s say June and last part of the game, then the hacking [ __ ] is gone because Ben, although he’s not a great free throw shooter, he’s doing 60 70% minimum. I think he did over 70 last year. So, at least a free throw show shooting won’t be a h, you know, won’t be achily seal for us if if he’s in there once in a while playing a little center cuz he’s athletic enough. He rebounds solid. Then he adds the passing, the dribbling. I mean, he does so many different things that yes, I’m going to give it to Mitch. Defense awesome. Rebounding incredible, but the other factors that Ben brings if he does play a few minutes, I’m not talking about pacing Mitch, but a few minutes for Mitch can’t compensate for those things cuz we may need those things. And if we ever want to go, we need a stop end of the game and you put in Mitch, OG, Mau, Ben Simmons, and I drop in deuce. I mean, come on. And then you time out, offense comes in. You drop back in Cat, you know, Brunson. Um, you want to put in um I mean, I know toxin, whatever. You did some offense. All all offense. We need one shot. We need one basket. Boom. You have five guys. everyone can hit a shot. So either way you look at it, Ben adds to the team and prevents us from having another team get him. That may be the last piece they need. Now, as far as um adding talent, what did OKC and Pacers add last year that made him so much better than they were a year before or did they not really improve much? They just simply grew the continuity of the team they already had. How many other teams added superstar superstar pieces pieces even us included and they all of them ended up in both of them were in the finals. Mhm. And went 10 11 deep sometimes. Mhm. So let’s let’s look at the fact that our players by the we didn’t add players so to speak. We improved guys who are going towards their prime because everybody this year on the Knicks is improving something and needs to improve something. So let’s say you know cat physic you know physicality get a little bit leaner you know get a little bit more defensive knowledge or at least you know basic foundation about how team plays that’s improvement Brunson maybe he recognized and he did recognize he even said it step back and trying to take over the game cuz he did it a couple times he knew he was just trying to get the eagle he call up to him they mess with his head and he goes I’m going to drive to bring the ball up and I’m going to and he that’s going to be an improvement not to mention all pass for his game. MueL with just the rest alone, three less minutes a game for MueL. And like I said with a heart that alone, three to five minutes less minutes in the game cuz I had an argument three years ago. I want early minutes police person. I want the earliest minutes policeman. I’m telling you I’m not I’m not the police. I’m M CIA, NSA, Interpol, KGB. I am that most. That’s who I am. Okay. I was like the G. And I had one cat argue with me. I didn’t want to I’m not going to call him out. But he was like, “Come on, man. These guys are professionals. They’re getting paid. They’re, you know, elite athletes. I when I was a when I was a kid, didn’t we play all day?” And I’m like, “How do you compare when you played it as a kid to professional athletes?” You know why Hussein Bolt doesn’t do multiple sprints same day? He even for 100 meters of energy he puts out, he needs to recover. I mean, even that sounds crazy, right? 100 meters you got to run. And yet, they don’t let him run back to back heaps in the same day, you know? So, I’m like, wait a second. You guys are looking at professional athletes who run up and down that court and they play all out, especially leaks with with um with Tibs playing defense as a number one priority. They’re playing both sides. They’re not doing I’m I’m a LeBron fan. They’re not doing even LeBron is rested on defense a lot of times. Okay. I mean maybe MJ didn’t not as much but you you got to look at these guys as they do get tired and they do going to take some minutes off or seconds off here or there and every time you take a little break there’s a hole you lose a you lose you got a point scored against you make you know errant foul you make a bad pass cuz psychologically mentally your brain is not considered because you’re breathing the oxygen is not getting there because you got to breathe so that alone is an improvement for all of them who are playing 38 40 minutes a Okay. So, I’m just saying the team is getting is better by the fact that we’re just bringing in talent and we have a coach going to play them in a way that they are more efficient like you said, more efficient, more effective all around. So, we are a better team without even talking about Yabiselli and Clarkson. So, right away this is a team that’s set and poised. We’re now a coach and now we’re bringing an defensive assistant coach, an offensive kind of coordinate assistant coach that the coach listens to during the game and actually may see things he doesn’t see. So you realize, man, if I use multiple brains and multiple eyes to see things I don’t see, unlike somebody who likes to stand up there by himself and decide everything by himself and then players play hurt and turns his back when guys are gas for air and I didn’t see that and let the guy play over that alone and then to go 10 I’m thinking I think we’re going to go 11 12 these sometimes because we talking about points. Mhm. We can put up we’re going to put up points sometimes where we’re going to be like first of all let’s put bed in there playing fast and guys are gas for air we’re going to need a pome dad we’re going to need hak we’re going to need their war possibly kle can step in there we have guys who going to step in and all we need is two three minutes of rest and and then those guys get experience before you know what we are 13 14 solid deep where any one of those guys in the playoffs can step right in and just the format of the team to be able to play with. We could we could actually probably play five bigs at a time. Listen, I mean literally Cat, um Simmons, um my boy Mitch and we put those guys all in there. We’re like, “Okay, you got to shoot from outside. There’s no one coming inside.” And then we OG and um and Ben and even Mitch and Huff too can do a little perimeter play a little bit. So we’re literally looking at those bigs, you know, from paint to 15 20 ft defense that is a killer defense that people go, okay, we’re taking a we’re taking we’re taking, you know, you know, we got to take logo shots today. Today is a logo shot day for this. There’s nobody coming in and trying to drive past those guys. So, I launched Spiel, but I just had to throw it out there. But my number one thing was prevent another team from getting a player like Ben Simmons. That may be the last piece they need that beats us in the playoffs. We go, “Oh man, we could have we could have had him at player 16. We could have put him in, you know, we could have had him bench him. We could just get him, shelf him. Don’t let Don’t let Boston don’t let Indiana don’t let Miami get him.” You know, that’s all. Okay. I wish I wish we had some money to offer him because right now it’s his choice. He got about five shooters that are really interested in him. But I think he wants to come to the Knicks. I think he really wants to come to the Knicks, man. I think if the Knicks knew that he didn’t really want to be here, they would already bring in uh Landy Sham for talk more. You would hear more talks about Brogden and stuff like that. All the all the names that were out there prior to this, all the names they that went somewhere or something like that, you don’t hear their names no more. The only name you really hear is Sims. Simmons, you know what I mean? And um you know I I like I said I’m I’m a big brother the guy but I I would I would love to see Simmons here too. I think he would change I think his game would change. I think I could see him I could see I could see a whole total different thing. You could start Deuce and put Mitch in the back court and have u uh Sim Sims and and and um and uh and Clarkson in the back court with Mitch and Yaveelli and Josh Hart. You know what I mean? If you want to do something like that, you know, you could you could really play with the lineups now. If you do put Sims in there, you could have Sims starting with with him, Muel Bridges, OG Anobi with Cat and Jaylen Brunson. That that’s that’s the three that’s that triangle defense if you want to call it that. You know what I mean? Switchable defense. So, it makes sense for me to see him and and I want a bigger guard, too. I’m not I wasn’t with the smaller guards like the uh uh Marcus Small Smarts and all those guys. I wasn’t really with them, you know. I mean, uh uh especially like uh for the veteran for the ones the guys that was out there. This was before um Clarkson. Clarkson that already got signed. I mean, with the guys that’s out there, out of the guys that’s out there, uh my my choices are Ben Simmons and and and um Brockton. Well, it’s only those two now, right? Who else is there now, right? It’s only it’s only like those two names are really uh holding up everything, right? Well, and well, I mean, Sham’s team is still being linked to the Knicks, man. But imagine Ben I mean, I keep seeing Brunson getting beaten up every time he tries to bring the ball up against the paces. I keep seeing that over and over. It’s my reigning nightmare. Brunson getting beat up trying to get the ball up to the midcourt line. Andre, I mean, I got to admit, I’m not trying to dison, but Ben got a better handle than Brunson. Ben actually has a better handle than Brunson. And he distributes better than Brunson. So just imag the look up of seeing Brunson coming up the court all the time where you can plot him. You can put him in the corner. When he got to the half court just like you said was when he got to the half court line it was trouble. No matter who it was two three guys coming to attack him then you know what I mean? So now if you got if you got uh uh if if it’s Sims is on the starting unit and he’s bringing the ball up that takes away all of that stuff and he’s seeing over all these 62 63 guys. He’s seeing over all of that. Exactly. And look at his turnover ratio too, right? My mind was he his turn as I remember he his he he he was he was he was how many years ago was it? Uh 21. What was it? 2019. What was he? That’s two three time four time. How many years ago was that? A long a long time ago. How long did that long ago? Was it 20 212? No. When was it? Uh, let me tell you. Let me tell you. Uh, he was So, he’s been in the league about 10 years now, right? So, you go back 10 or 2015, 16, 17, something like that. Yeah, it’s uh we’re talking Yeah. 20 uh uh 2017, 18, 19. 17. Yeah. 17. Yeah. Okay. All right. All right. But his handle actually his handless handle. His handle is not a problem. That’s one way to note. He does not get you can’t take the ball from him easily. and he sees over players and he disturbs the ball well and he’s unselfish to a fault. This is a true we can say unselfish to a fault because he will not shoot the ball. But imagine like I said Josh imagine if this guy just takes a couple of shots a game by a couple of 15 foot shots a game if he misses it just to take it. I’m not I’m not even worried about him taking those shots. I want to see him set up with Cat. I want him to put Cat in his position down low so Cat can dominate down low because Cat didn’t have too many back to the baskets uh plays last year. A couple but not many. I think he could dominate if he have if if you put all these guys that we’re talking about. You put Cat and Sims on one side, Simmons on one side and you put all the rest of the shooters on the other side. Nobody who’s going to double team? Who’s going to want to double team? If you got if you got male, if you got Jaylen Brunson, and you got Oanna Nobi on the wings, who’s gonna want to come and double team? Especially and K pass the ball. So, we set him up like that, we kill him down low, man. I I I see I I I was so much more on Brogden. But the more and more I talk about it, I like the way Sims sounds, you know what I mean? Because Brogden, I’m I’m worried about Brockton, even though Sims have health problems, too. But last couple of years, Brogden hasn’t been all that great. You know what I mean? And I I I I I if it’s between those two, I’m starting to lean more towards Sims. Right. Sim’s been healthier the past couple years than Brod. But also, my only thing again why I wouldn’t mind having him is because he is a hedge against Mitch not signing. And if Mitch does not resign, I just don’t want to have another hard situation. I mean, I don’t mind getting in a ring and then hope that Mitch will then in the summer hope that he goes all way champions or we got to the finals. So, let me stay and sign for, you know, 5 10 million a year less than I can make. I know high couldn’t turn that deal down. I would if he turned down the OKC salary, I’d have slapped him myself. I’d have been I would have called his mom and be like, I’m coming with you to slap him because that was I mean, come on. That’s a huge difference, right? But Mitch could have a will demand 15 15 to 20 if he stays healthy. But but another team who sees that may offer him 2530. Someone may offer him 25. He paid 6 million from the male deal. So there you go. He if he’s on the books now, the books go up 10%. So if that 13 million to still be on the books, you’re offering another $3 million over that $6 million that we save from Muel. I think Mitch take I think Mitch take 15 for three years or another million another 45 million on the Knicks for three years espe and we win a championship. Yeah, I think I think he’ll do it. So you think he’ll do it? Okay I think he do three years 45 I think he do three years 45 the last year option. You know what I mean? And I think uh because he knows that uh any twist ankle this he’s on the best right now. The Knicks didn’t. This was the longest time that I’ve seen Mitch be hurt and stay out until he was 100% ready. The LA latter years when we didn’t have this good of of of physical coaching. I mean, um, uh, rehab coaching and stuff like that, the the the doctors of the team and stuff like that. We bring Mitch back early. We bring him back early last year when he got hurt with be that terrible thing that be did to him. But we br him back early. Every year that he came back, he came back early because we needed him so bad. We came back early. This was one of the first years that they extended. We thought Mitch was supposed to be back by by by January. Mitch didn’t came come back to March, right? So, we were way off with it. The the the the coaching staff and the the physical heads there, the doctors, all that stuff said, “No, if y’all really want this guy to be effective, let’s keep him out longer to nurse this leg and stuff like that. If we can continue if if can Mitch can come this year and be healthy. Yeah. Mitch probably won’t be here next year either. Okay. But the other question is how many how many minutes will Mitch play? How many minutes you expect this year? I can see Mitch doing 28 minutes. He ain’t got to do many minutes. 26 28 minutes. He ain’t got to do many. He got to do that many because we got we got Haka Pertie and we got Yamiselli. I think Yakapertie is going to be a big help to us this year. I think he would have been a big I think he would have been a big force in us last year if he didn’t get hurt. I think he would have rolled out the holes. He would have really rung himself. He was He’s the highest marked one right now uh with the young guys out of Tyler Kolic and uh Pone. I think Hakertie this year will get 14. Let’s run let’s run the numbers alone though. Let’s run the numbers between Mitch and Cat. How many minutes are left to be played? If those guys play numbers you won’t expect them to play. Okay. Because right now they have 96 minutes, right? Are they playing Are they playing on the court together? Are they playing uh uh the same position? No. No. I mean, I’m actually just throwing out a power forward um center type circumstance on those two guys. Technically, Mitch starts Let me get my calculator. All right. Mitch starts right. Mitch is starting. Mitch is a center. Cats a power forward. Their backups are what? Yabiselli and OG kind of power forward and then hot 40 right kind of sort of but if we don’t if we want to put in OG as power forward as a backup to cat when he’s off the court and and um we have a true centers of the court in Hawk 40 and Mitch I’m just dropping out there that there’s going to be almost 40 minutes who’s starting though where’s who’s starting that makes a difference the starting unit will make a difference to If you say let’s play with let’s play Mitch starts if you say Mitch starts okay so you should talk about all right they could it depends on now so Mitch started that means Hakertie is backing him up I think this year could do 20 22 24 minutes I think miss could do the rest 28 to 30 minutes so yell back yelli and backs up and miss maybe not even have to do that we might even see a spotting from um um are we bringing up Muhammad who we bringing up as the Nani. Nani. Nanji. We bring up Nani. The one that we got from off of the trade from um from um Cat. Yeah. Yeah. I don’t know. I’m just trying to see. I don’t know about that. Exactly. There we go. Which direction we going, y’all? Hold on. We do have some big We do have some big men and stuff like that. We do have some big men. We have a lot of options that we could work with this year. You know what I mean? Especially if you’re talking about bringing in Pakome which is 67 68. If you’re talking about uh using uh um Aapertie some minutes, uh Yabaselli some minutes, you know, we got a lot of guys that are six. We we didn’t have this problem last two years ago or something like that. This year it’s not going to be a problem. But if we get Sim if we get Simmons in here, he’s 610. So we going to be real big with a lot of guys that are that have agility. So I every night will be a different amount of minutes spread out. I think I think every night is going to be the the starting lineup is always going to be the same amount of lineup. I think everyone in the starting lineup and Mitch Robinson, everybody else is 31 minutes and under. I don’t think nobody in the starting lineup unless it’s the playoffs or it’s a real close game and they play like the last five minutes of a fourth quarter and they already at 27 28 minutes, you know. I don’t think they’re going high 35 minutes no more. this team. Uh, you know, I mean, unless it gets to the playoffs, then you want to really grind it out. I don’t even think in the playoffs they’re going to do it. Especially if you get uh uh contribute, if if everybody contributes. Everybody contributes, you keep the same rotation. You know, I mean, why why break the rotation? You keep the same rotation. Well, I will say that I like I like the ambition of trying to get these young players in there and helping what what the Knicks got going on. I don’t know if the math is mapping, though. There’s a lot a lot of minutes. I don’t know if the math is math. Exactly. That’s what I’m trying to say. The math math for for right now. I got to hit you with this one. See if I know the ledge. A little little out the window. Just a little bit. But I’m with it. I do think that Hook 40 could be a part of the team and could help. I don’t know if he getting no 20some minutes though, but I don’t know how they going to do it. But it could happen where he gets he gets to be like he can be a part of the team and it’ll look very impactful out there cuz we’d be surprised, man. Y’all don’t need You really don’t need to have 20 minutes to show that you’re affecting the game. Facts. 15 14 minutes and and yo, you man, you see this dude last night, you could you could tell when somebody is is is adding to to to what they got going on. So, I I’m I’m with it. And I do think that you guys are right. Like what what Sha was saying, it could be different on any given night depending on how Mike Brown wants to play things and what he’s looking at from guys. And we we’ll see. I I like I I expect that the Knicks are going to run out there and he’s going to play 10 and in the beginning he may start off even playing 11 here and there. Thanks. To see what they got going on and just to see what’s the most I can cuz if if we’ve heard that Mike Brown likes to have full practices, as many as he can get, and he likes to make these guys work. He showed y’all people make a joke about it. It’s a meme watching him get in practice and run up the court. He’s doing that to show you, listen, I have no business running up the court. I’m whatever I am and I can hurt myself doing this. If I’m willing to do it and you are younger than me and definitely in better physical shape, I expect you to do it consistently. So, that’s what it is. I expect Mike Brown to try to knowing that, hey, we don’t have the best defensive club top to bottom. We got some really skilled defensive players, but top to bottom, we don’t got it. So, it’s about effort. guys are gonna need to go out there and work harder than the other team. I need instead of me getting 15 minutes out of you, you know, giving me No, and I’m I know we’re talking about minutes. It could be a lot more than that, but I’m just hypotheticals. Let me do it for even hypotheticals. Say instead of me getting 30 minutes out of you where 15 minutes of that time you on cloud9 like you are killing it and then the other 15 minutes, you know, you’re trying to find your way. You just keeping it up. keep, you know, pause, keeping up where you was. I’d rather get 20 minutes out of you and 15 of those minutes are the best 15 minutes you got and then it’s five minutes. It’s not great. That’s a big difference in how the Knicks look out there on the court and a big difference in how the team could prepare for us. You know, they know, hey, you don’t think that when when we played these teams, Indiana, OKC, Houston, oh, these guys played 38, 40 minutes a night. We going to run them out the gym. You don’t think they thinking that we play 11 players and we going to hit them with it. They they they know. So, that we got to change something. We got to be better at what we got going on. Like I said, the g the the NBA game has changed a little bit. It’s now it’s not just about can you score, can you play defense, it’s about the stuff in between. How can we make it harder for them to stop us? How can we be different on defense? They they kill us with the drop coverage. They shooting threes all over the place. How can we do something to make them work harder on their side of the ball where when they’re on offense, they can’t they can’t run around us the way they usually do? We got to do stuff different, man. We got to figure it out. what what makes more sense to go out there and and and win games at a at a more efficient clip and make it so that they don’t know what to do to stop us. When’s the last time that you saw a opposing coach go out there and say, “I don’t know, man. We tried everything we could, but we just we couldn’t stop him. They no matter what we tried.” That is what I want to hear. That’s like the stuff the stuff that we’ve heard about Jaylen Brunson sometimes where the opposing coach Yeah. Yeah. No, he did whatever he wanted tonight. That’s what I want for the whole team and hope we get that this year. We’ll see. Also, another part of defense is to make the other team fatigued on offense by running, right? And also the possibility of of fast breaks keeps them on their heels a little bit and not crashing the board. So that’s part of your defense as well is that these guys that their guards and their wings are not going to necessarily crash the you know their offensive board for them because they know if they don’t get that rebound we got we got you know OB mentality guys out there you know I don’t talking about my boys but guys who are ready to go out there and run and all and you’re like damn I got to get back on defense. So that’s part of your defense is having them thinking they got to be ready to go back in defense after they take their shot because they can’t come in and crash the ball like they want to be. And then if they’re if they if we’re running and they got to run to keep up with us or catch us, then they coming back in offense a little bit more fatigued and now they’re playing truly two-way where sometimes these guys don’t play two-way against us cuz when you have Brunson bring the ball out. And again, not going to bash Brunson, but maybe it’s a tip scenario. 15 seconds to set up that means there are three guys in the, you know, at the back line for that team resting. That’s all you need. 50 seconds of rest saying, “Okay, our guy’s got Brunson getting the ball up.” He gets cross, you know, midcourt, 7 seconds in, then he’s at the top, you know, he’s trying to get a pick from Mitch or somebody and that’s another 5 seconds. Before you know it, 14 seconds gone by and there are guys on the outside standing next to OG and and at the sideline, it’s resting and they get their breather, they get their breath back. Ah, then the ball rebounds. Boom. They’re gone. And now you know Indiana like OKC like they pushing it and we got to try to catch them. Give them no time to rest like Mag Brown power will be. They can’t rest on offense. They can’t rest on defense. That’s the kind of mentality where their defense will now suffer and then the offense will suffer because they’re not rested and they got to be two-way players and don’t dare go to eightman rotation for them. So they got to go to 10 man and may not have the 10 man rotation that we have not the depth we have with 10 men. So let them bring in their ninth tenth guy who all of a sudden we’re like oh yeah fresh baby. You know this is kind of what we’re waiting for. So I’m I’m with you. I like it. I I the vers the versatility is what’s going to make us a a a contending team. Make it something that you know they gonna have a problem with. Um let me do this. I got somebody else waiting backstage in a minute. Let me let me just um let me I got about 20 minutes left. Let me open up the phone lines as well, you know, just to to kind of, you know, get it get us moving just in case anybody want to call in. I won’t I won’t call in today. Okay. I’m not going to call in today. Thank you. All right. So, let let’s get it cracking. You know what it is. Yes, sir. I love that. That’s funny. I’m going to switch my my screen up. I got 45 screens here. Hold on. Let me switch this up. Uh where’s the other one I need? Got to switch to this group right here. Boom. Uh, switch that out. Boom. This will allow me to add. Uh, oh, I lost him. He’ll come back. Um, but in the meantime, by the way, you guys, you guys cooled down a little bit out back in New York and a little rain stopped cuz you know, Cali here has been 75 80 degrees all year. I mean, it’s just tired weather. You I hope you’re all right, bro. I hope you’re okay. I’m trying to survive this consistent 80 degrees sunny weather. Tough times for you over there. Yeah. Tough tough. Yeah. You gonna be all right though. You gonna get through. Okay. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hold on. All these different looks, man. Oh, man. I did. There we go. All right. Uh, they made me fix the damn. Yeah, I see your subways become submarine way. That’s what I thought about like that. And then I’m like, what’s up in the water in the sub in the subway, man? What’s up with that? I saw a river in the subway. That’s great. You know what I did? Sometimes you just got to be like, you know, sometimes you want to be out of work, man. I said, “No, I’mma stay at work. Let let other people deal with the water. By the time I get out of here, it’s going to be dry.” And that’s what I did. By the time I left work, it was dry. So, I’m sorry for those that had to deal with the river. Oh, man. Um, Jay Boogie, you here? What? Oh, snap. Oh, no. No. He’s still trying to get connection. All right, we’ll get him. We’ll get him. Don’t you worry. Get him. Oh, snap. But um uh once again the number to call in is uh 3473057280 if you want to call in. You know I’m we here we we rocking for a little bit. Um appreciate you. So uh shout out to James Naji for for doing what he had to do and making it official. He is going to officially be in the states. He’s already worked everything out with his peoples out there now. No, I’m not going. He he he he hit him with the uh the Harlem Nights when when when the guy uh met the uh the lady of the night and put your mother on the phone. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I’m not coming home no more. I’m not staying in United States. There we go. I mean, he’s good game, too, man. I’m telling you. I mean, right now, I mean, looks really good. Makulla looks really solid, man. I mean, um, Bocham, do we have Do we We’re keeping Bo Cham. Is he on the GD? Bo Champ. No. D. Yeah, I know. Stinks. Oh, got a caller. Hold on one second. Let’s get this caller. Caller, you on live. Uh, know the ledge. What’s going on? Your name and where you calling from? How you doing? This is uh Nick Nason here calling from Hey, Nick. What up? What up? How’s it going, brother? Good to hear from you, man. What’s happening? What’s on your mind, brother? Well, I think the only really thing that’s on my mind as far as, you know, ahead of people that were adding and, you know, looking to add and the the um more based off the system that Tibs ran. So, I really want to know how you guys feel about that because that was a read and react system where I believe Mike Brown is actually putting in a real system because I’ve always had issues with the read and react is because that causes a long like you need co cohesion. You need to be playing together for quite a few years where we’ve implemented you know new players into this into that. I didn’t even call it a system because it’s it’s a more of a um a reaction like you say as far as what you’re doing but not real a real system per se where you know I mean hey this is left that’s right you know down screen back screen you know things like that and when we did run little small things like that it was like a miracle a few times where he would actually run plays you know what I mean all sen you would see how wide sometime guys guys would get because we would just do things off that read and react system, right? So, I’m asking basically with this new, you know, hopefully that Mike Brown is actually building in a system, how do you guys actually see the creativity working uh for some of these players as opposed to this, you know, the read and react? Like I say, I’ve always had a little bit of issues with that because if I am bringing someone else in and they know the system, you know what I mean? They can at least then implement themselves and kind of know their role. Many of our players, I’ve always heard whispers about they didn’t understand their role. They didn’t understand their role. I heard that consistently from players. And what the, you know what I mean? Because I think, like I said, it was based off a read and react, which he called a system, but I didn’t really see it as a system. I just saw it as a reaction to what players may do, you know what I mean? But not a real, you know, not a real not a real system because every time, you know, teams threw defenses at us that caused that read and reacts problems is, you know, we fell apart. Like we we would just crumble in certain instances. Yeah. So, I I’ll um you know, it’s just a question just to put it out there and I’ll, you know, I’ll hang up and allow you guys to you know, I mean, have a discussion about it. No doubt. Appreciate the call, my brother. Thank you. And thanks, man. Great call. Great point. I I completely agree. Go ahead. Go ahead. Um, so I’m gonna say something real quick and I’ll let you guys elaborate on on what your thought is, but I think that first off under Mike Brown is going to play fast. You know, that’s that’s without a doubt. I already mentioned something about his style of once you get the ball and how quick he wants you to get to the paint once you have it to make your decisions. But the other thing is Tom Tibido’s system and we’ve talked about this multiple shows, different content creators. So, a lot of people in the Knicks community should already know this, but I’m sure there’s always going to be some people that don’t think about the game in that that regard and don’t look at it those ways that don’t that do not know that the Knicks intentionally play slow. They intentionally play half court style offense because Tom Tibido’s defense has to be set up, right? A big part of Tom Tibido’s defense has always been the big man. And the big man has to be back down in the paint, has to get back to his spot, and people have to get into their spots to be able to orchestrate his defense. Right. The other thing is he didn’t want the Knicks having to as a team having to work too hard on offense because he wanted that extra energy to be there on the defensive end. That’s how as most people say, yeah, you can comment about the drop coverage and certain things that that Tom Tibid would would call out that, you know, aren’t necessarily the greatest things these days, but you would like, oh, the Knicks are still able to do it. The Knicks are still able to be a top 10 defense, top 15 defense with it, uh, and at times be even a top five defense because of their effort, right? They have skilled they have certain skilled defensive players, but their effort and their effort was part of the reason that they conserved a little energy as a team by playing ISO ball. You know, maybe maybe Cat’s working harder, maybe Jaylen Brunson’s working harder, but the rest of the team, they’re conserving the energy. And then when it comes back to defense, they have it. They’re playing slower. They’re not running around doing a lot of movement and all this stuff. They’re saving energy for the defense. They’re not running pushing the pace so much going on the go so they can set up and orchestrate the defense and everybody can get into place to to do it the way they want. This is all parts of Tom Tibido’s style of offense. Under Mike Brown, we’re not going to see that. Under Mike Brown, this team is going to go. Now, I’m not saying we’re going to be the Golden State Warriors or or like the heyday Los Angeles Lakers, but we’re going to be running and be a lot more different than we’ve ever been in the past. The Knicks consistently under Tibido always 28th, 29th, 30th in pace every year. Under Mike Brown, we won’t be that. I’m not saying we’re going to be top 10, top 15, top 20, but maybe we’re high 20, you know, 21. That that’s a huge difference, guys. Let me tell you something. To go from 28, 29, 30 to 21 or anything like that in pace is a huge difference for our team. You’re going to see you’re going to see how different it looks. I’m not going to say it’s a total because the only thing it takes a couple years for Mike Brown to totally change this this style of play for the Knicks. He’s going to need some time and they’re going to have to do some stuff that was under tips. That’s just how it is. Just like a president coming in. President can’t come in and say, “Oh, well, you know, we’re going to do all this. I’mma change uh the way you get your health care. We’re just going to do everything right. No, I got to roll with the systems that we got in place and slowly start to change it because you need time. So anyway, Sha, what’s your thoughts on on what Nick Nation asked um you know, in regards to the style of play and and you know, uh you know, how things going to look. Well, you know, until we really get to see it, we won’t really know. But what I what I do know about Tom Tibido’s uh thing like you said uh it was a slower pace uh slower down halfcourt uh style of uh basketball uh you know and I don’t think that it that we’re going to have that that much of a slowdown game this year. I think um and and what this guy brings here is to push the pace. One of my pet peeves is to push the pace. I like when the Knicks when the Knicks push the pace and they get out before they they before the uh opposing team gets set up, they score the basketball, they move the ball with fluidity. And this is where the Knicks get um you know, at a lot of these games this year, you’ll see the game the Knicks getting almost 30 assists a night. So that style of basketball is the type of basketball I think we’ll see more of Josh Hard jetting down the the basket, seeing these guys uh Jaylen Brunson breaking out a little bit more now that we got male and all these guys to break out a little bit more, get down court, move the ball a little fast and stuff like that. So these guys can set up and then I think that you will also see a more slower paced game and twirled in into this faster paced mentality that I think they will bring out because you do want to see it slow down once in a blue moon. You are going to look forward to having knowing about some isolation basketball from Cat when Cat when if it’s Ben Simmons and Cat setting up on the left hand side. If it’s uh Jaylen Brunson isolating with the high post with uh uh Sims and and and or or Muel Bridges and OG uh to to to be their pick his pickoff guys so he can set them up or something like that. So there will be some games because we will that’s that’s some of the style of the Knicks basketball is that isol we have isolation players. A cat is a is a great isolation basketball player. Brunson is one of the best isolation player. uh when you put uh uh male in uh in the mid-range, his ISO down low, his mid-range shot in the isolation when he fades back is flawless. You know what I mean? 50%. So, I think those are the things that we will still see in that slower pace game, but I think overall, like you said, I think a pace from 28 29 to going up to 20 is a major jump. You know I mean I think I would like to see that also 20 if we could get anything past if we get you know mid mid you know um 15 you know mid any anything that that the Knicks could get mid that they was terrible last year like our our our our second unit was last in the league 30th in the league. If our if our second if our team this year is 15th we’re way better than we were last year. this our pace from 29th last year, I think it was 28th or 29th last year, goes up to 18th, 19th, that’s way better than what we was. So, I’ll take all of those improvements because that means that the team is getting better. 100%. What you think, Whiz? Whiz on. So um like complete um I concur on on many of the points you just made. Um, another fact I want to bring in cuz it was a great point brought up, man, is that read and react is not a bad system, especially for high IQ players, but there’s still a certain level of continuity to be able to really do it properly because a lot of times if you if you’re playing, no matter how high your IQ is where you are and you see a hole, the other guy may see a different development. And until you’ve played together long enough, it’s not going to quite click because I’m going to cut when you’re like, “Oh, if you just fake the cut and pull back, you’ll have open shot.” As a point guard, sometimes Brunson, I’m probably thinking, may see one one hole and doesn’t see it. And so again, it requires continuity. So you need to be playing together a lot more. So because of that factor alone to implement that from the very beginning was a tough was a very tough call to for all those players to adjust to right away but yet we started last season I think we were probably number one in offense for like the first month or so right so we were playing at a pace and with with kind of um we didn’t react ability to score people until people started getting our game and seeing our game format because we still went back to certain basic functions like you like you said that we wanted to set up because we want our defense to be ready to get set up as well. So the pace was slower and once we slow the pace down team started going okay I’m just going to read his next play cuz we didn’t react for you as a offense it’s same it’s the same as a defensive player we didn’t reacting if he’s a high IQ defensive player cuz all you got to do is go oh I see what he’s thinking so let me do this but if you set a play that’s going to go against a read and react format that throws you for a little loop and the defensive guy is trying to read what would naturally occur but then the team has a little twist on it because the offensive coordinator or the offensive man coach is has a different play already that’s going to expect you to react to this and so read and react can be read and reacted by the defense as well. So that means the offense is nullified by high highly you know high IQ defensive players. Okay. So, I think this year because we’re going to have so many different set plays, plus playing faster and again also the speed of our play, it’s overwhelmingly going to offset the other team’s ability to read our plays because they have to think faster as well, unlike last year where they didn’t have to think as quickly because it was so slowly developing. So, I expect I expect I mean I’m not going to go crazy, but I really kind of expect 120 120 plus games for us as average. I really can see that happening. I don’t want to, you know, make it even crazy, but I think we can put up some one a lot of one more 130 games than than expected and still have a solid defense that’s going to hold another team down at the 115 mark. In fact, I think our defense this year will be better than last year’s defense. I where’s I concur like you said I concur. I think the Knicks are going to be around 118 this year scoring scoring this year. I think the Knicks are set up if you just do the numbers with the starting unit last year you know hypothetically they were around 90 100 points 90 94 point something 95 points and I mean for the starting unit the the and and and uh the the second unit was giving us like 11 12 14 points 16 points. One reason why we only averaged 114 points last year that if you average this team with Yabasali getting eight points, Josh Harden the second unit getting eight points, Clarkson getting eight points in the second unit. Um, Hakertie getting eight points in the second unit. Just those four guys on with eight points a piece is 24 points. That’s way that’s quadruple better than what we did last year. And I mean, now the starting unit doesn’t have to score 90 points in order for us to win. Now they can go now they can be they’ll be less on the court because their minutes will go down but the the they’ll still score about 80 points instead of 95 points the second unit to pick up those extra 15 points getting more minutes on the court and now you will see the Pones the Tyler Kix and all those 14 to 15 I mean 13 and 14 guy on the on the bench because we’re outscoring teams now and our defense if we can keep if we can keep teams the under 109 points a game. That’s that’s pretty especially if we’re if we’re if we’re scoring 118. That’s that’s a win right there for me. I mean, you know, now who’s your who’s your starting team, man? You said because you’re giving me nine plus points. Who who are the starters that you count those points for? I if if you’re talking about without Ben Simmons or anybody like that, um we’re talking about the the the usual suspects. We’re talking about I I’m starting Mitchell Robinson and um yeah, I’m starting Mitchell Robinson. So that’s Mitchell Robinson, Cat uh OG Muel Jaylen Brunson. Second unit is Deuce McBride uh Clarkson. That’s a big matchup that I want to see right there. Those two guys on the court together. Josh Hard Yabiselli and and Hucka Pertie. Last year starters was was um Hart in there. So the points I would start this year too. Why not? You know, Hucker Pie be the one who suffer. Mitchell Robson is still going to get his minutes if you want to start it like that. If you wanted to start, if you wanted to start Deuce in the starting lineup. No, no, no, but I’m saying last year’s lineup was saying, I know what you’re saying. You just trying to say how how are the points actually? So, let’s let’s do it like this. Let’s say Brunson can give you 25 points a game. Oh, you mean per player? Yeah, he’s trying to get to the 90. Okay. Trying to get to the 90. So, all right. Let’s say Brunson can give you 25. Cat can give you 25. Now this the thing is like we saw last year. It was a little up and down. Brunson was a little closer to the 25. Cat, even though he average around 24, you know, there’s going to be nights where you don’t really get there. But we also got to say we’re going to be a different offensive squad. So maybe it’s going to be a little easier for us to score now. So maybe they can live closer to form. Maybe they both can give around 25 points, right? Maybe now. So you figure 25 25 that’s 50 just saying it could be give or take right then you saying 15 from OG 15 from Macau maybe more on a given night that’s 30 30 and 50 is 80 yes so and then we’re talking Mitch is the other player so I don’t really pencil Mitch in to give us 10 points a night so you know we’re going to need we’re going to probably be more around 85 points right that that’s that’s the difference with taking Josh Harder but if you want to get to that 94 five points and stuff like that. You put Josh, you can start Josh again. He’s proven. Or you can start Deuce McBride. True. If you want to get to the If you want to get to that 95 points that we was doing, I mean, with Josh Hard in there last year, let’s be realistic. We scored 95 points last year with Josh Harding. That’s right. if if we want to go back to getting that 90 I I think Josh Hard got a viable I mean I don’t see you know and then then now that see with Josh Hard starting that makes the uh that third position now open for maybe a Pone or somebody like that I don’t know who would be in that that position now because now you got now you got Deuce McBride you got you got uh and now you got Mitchell Robinson and Yagelli who’s who’s that next man that I’m missing Now that’s that’s either poor um Pome or Hy. All right. But but now with that lineup now you could use Pone now. Now you can use Pone if you start Josh Hart. You see I don’t want I don’t want to start Josh Pres. If you want if you want Pone to get some minutes, you start Josh Hart. I mean I can’t start Josh. I’m sorry. I don’t want Josh to start either. I’m just he did he we did score 95 points with Josh being the starting, right? Oh, no. But I’m not saying Josh won’t give us um points off the bench. So, I’m still saying 120 or 118, but I want to get there with logically with can do we have the players to get us there? And it doesn’t have to be Josh starting. We could still put up 85 as the as the starting five or so to speak five and a half. We call Mitch gonna put up five points, maybe 10 sometimes once in a while. Listen that we definitely have the players to get us there, right? It’s not about the points. It’s about is our offense going to be efficient enough night in and night out to continue to points because defense can stop us but if we make it tougher for them to stop us if we’re scoring at an efficient level where they can’t just stop us because we can go out game to game and put up 120 130 when all the shots are falling but if we go up against a team that plays good defense oh let’s take Brunson out of this game or take this dude out of how do we score in those moments that’s why uh offensive system which um Nick Nation was talking about that Mike Brown looks to want to uh initiate is going to be very important for us to continue to go out there and score points at a high level every single night no matter who we playing. So because the only way to take out Brunson though is is to to edge on a double team possibility, right? which means we have to have somebody waiting for his pass or for him to get or for him not have the ball or for them to try to you know try to lean towards him when someone else has the ball to keep the ball from him. So now we need OG, Macau, Cat at minimum to have their game at a higher level and have them at a place they can get open to get that’s where the system comes in and you read and react doesn’t really lean towards that possibility of you taking a player away and now the other guys got to just like find find a place, find a spot. Especially the way um um Tibs did it where he puts M and OG in the corner right away. that kind of like cut down the possibility of them being unpredictable in the read and react situation. So, um, so I’m I’m I still see the 118 and I think that’s why I’m saying Mike Brown mentality, you know, even De Antonio mentality of offense is going to give that kind of team the possibility of doing it. So, actually, we got a new we got a new superstar in the lineup. Let me step back and let them speak cuz I’ve been talking to him. What’s up? And and just so you know, we got my brother in arms out there in the streets. And as you can see, there’s peoples out there. So, I’m I’mma I’mma let him get get his off and then I’mma try to get myself up out of here so I can go out there and be a be a part of the festivities for my boy uh you know, our our brother. Um you know, because like I said, he did, you know, we lost a good one, but you know, we also his brother is a very close uh friend of ours. We call him a brother because he is. And so I want to be there for him and obviously, you know, spend some time with him as well. So, but while I have him, John live on the streets. What’s going on, my brother? No. Get off get you already. Everybody’s waiting for you. I’m all right. We all waiting for you. Come on, bro. We all waiting for you. Come on. All right. All right. All right. I’m I’m I’m out. I got you. I got you. I’ll be there. I’ll be there. I’ll be there. Thank you, man. Thank you. Let me let me let me get about it. All right. Um let me uh bring Fritz in real quick. Get a quick word. Fritz. Hey, Ron. How you doing? What’s up, bro? I’m sorry. I would have jumped in earlier, man. I’m sorry to keep this short, but I do, you know, like I said, there’s been a lot going on. Memorial memorial services for a close friend of ours. And then, you know, I want I want to get out there and and show my love and be with uh his brother real, you know, while I can. So, he, you know, you know, I just want to be there for him. So, um yeah, but say whatever you wanted to say, man. Oh, no. I just came on just check out see what was going on with you guys. Um yeah, we were talking about um real quick. We were talking about um uh Nick Nation had called in and asked about you know Mike Brown’s uh offense and having an offensive system and how he thinks that would be really important for the Knicks going forward. So what what’s your thoughts on on Mike Brown uh system that he’s trying to implement because we you know as we get closer we’re going to learn more about it and what he actually likes to run and how it how it moves. But what’s your thoughts on that? Um, yeah, it it’s necessary. Like, uh, the way our offense looked last year was it was horrible. Um, we all know the ball can could move faster than the man and the Knicks were just so oneon-one. We were very slow to get into offense. So, it’s a it’s a welcome change. Yeah. No, 100% agree. Do you think that um I don’t know if you guys have been able to do a deep dive on Mike Brown’s offense. I’m still learning more about it um as as it as it’s starting to kind of present itself. I mean, we haven’t seen it in action yet obviously, but do you do you know anything more about his principles? Like I you know, I found out thanks shout out to DJ Ace on X or Twitter, whatever you want to call it. Him talking about how he likes to once the offense is initiated, whoever gets the ball, they have like 0.5 seconds to get to the lane, so that’s how he helps speed up the pace. Have you learned anything else about his offense like that? Um, I haven’t really broken it down. Um, we just know that he’s had, you know, he’s had dominant offenses in the past. Um, which is kind of his thing. So, um, Oh, shout out to Nostalgic Nick. It’s the Princeton offense supposedly. Okay. Yeah. So, yeah. You know, I h I haven’t really broken it down or anything like that. Okay. Hey, can I throw a quick question about his thought about MueL and Ben? Mhm. Mall salary and Ben’s possibility. Go ahead, brother. Fritz. Uh, yes. Yep. The the Muel’s salary, Muel’s extension. What do you think about it? And um and possible Ben Simmons signing. Um, yeah. I’m not surprised MueL like this is this is the number I thought he would come in. I thought he would come in at 150. Like I I always thought the Knicks always want you to kind of buy in that uh even OG OG deserved every cent he can get. He even he gave a little bit back. So I thought he would come in at 150. Yeah. So um it doesn’t I don’t think I think Nick fans are kind of married to the idea of being under the second apron. um for 26 27 I I don’t think that’s really as hard of a line as people think it is. Uh it’s is nothing wrong with going over the uh second apron. You just can’t keep doing it. Keep going. Right. That’s the problem when when you habitual at it. Yeah. When you you keep doing it, you keep when you keep doing it and then when you hit that number like it just hurts you from making moves if you’re comfortable with what you have. Thanks. It it doesn’t bother you. It bothers you when you want to wheel and deal. You want to wheel and deal when you’re over the second apron. Okay. Life is tough. Um, but if you don’t need to wheel and deal, beat over the second A range, you won’t see you won’t see a difference, like Golden State and all these teams, right? Yeah. My only concern was was um I Knicks normally have salaries diminish over time and this one increases. I guess next year is probably because of the apron going up. It’s okay kind of, but I I was hoping that he would stay averaging 33. That was my hope. I was hoping a 140 to maybe 130 140. That’s what I was hoping for to really show a full commitment to being part of the team and also leaving enough space for someone else coming in next. He’s worth every cent. Like I don’t I don’t get where people keep wanting people to take a pay cut for the sake of a pay cut. Like he’s not he’s not being overpaid. No, no, no. I I would say overpaid. I was trying to leave room for for somebody next year cuz even um even Brunson took a max salary even though it was early and he could have waited one more year for a higher he left six million on the table to get at the Mitch. Hey, I got one question to ask you first now that I’m glad that you’re on. I have I’ve been looking through this stuff all the all these last couple of days. I can’t figure it out. So maybe you can help me. They are there’s things out there saying that McCulla can be signed as this as a rookie or McCulla can’t be signed as the uh the minimum uh uh the the veteran salary or something like that. Can he get signed to e either one of those contracts? He can be signed as a vet. He can be signed. He can be signed as a vet. Yeah, that’s what I because he played last year, right? He played he played he played he played in he didn’t even have to play in the league. As long as he played in the GLeague, he can’t be a rookie. All right. So, yeah, he can’t be signed as rookie. I think I think people what people confuse is like they look at kind of like where Blake Griffin was where he you know as far as like um awards he may be considered a rookie maybe u but yeah but as far as a contract he’s he’s not a rookie. He he’s more likely to sign to the two-way contract then. Yeah, it makes sense. Yeah. Okay. All right. That’s what I think too. That’s what I thought. Everybody trying I was like no I think he’s not he can’t get all right. So now it may All right. If the Knicks do it right what they’ll do is they’ll have 14 for the season and right before the playoffs they’ll take one of the two A’s and they’ll sign them to the 15 to the to the 15. Yeah. Is it too early to make predictions records? Way too early predictions. 6 to4 6 to4. That’s all I’m saying. 64. Oh, that’s 64 win. That’s what I’m saying. Baby, I think I think I think I think the Knicks are going to be a better efficient team this year. I think that the Knicks uh will be uh one of the teams that’ll be talked about as pushing the pace this year. I think you’ll see a offensive a spectacular offense from these guys this year. I’m I’m in my opinion I think they’re going to be close to 118 points a game you know I mean uh on average. So are we going to see a couple of games when the Knicks go 140 some game? Uh yeah. Do I think you’re going to see a couple of games where the Knicks do 130ome? Yeah. So I I think that um this team will have a a a way better offensive year than they did last year. And I think that uh with the defense will work itself out. We not we don’t have bums as being defense. We’re not a whole bunch of turn styles and all that. Uh we we we talk about uh um Cat not he’s not is not he’s not a bad defender. He he he does bad things on defense. He uses his hand too much sometimes. He gets he gets in foul trouble early. Uh he moves he moves his hips before he moves his feet. He does stuff like that. So I mean he’s not a bad defender just like Brunson is not a bad defender. He’s just short in sta stature in my opinion. You I mean he play he’s always there. He’s always jumping in front of you, but he’s only 6’1 jumping against somebody that’s 6’5. He’s always going to see over you. So those things like that if we can just help them out, I think we’d be a way better team this year. I can agree with you. Nice hat, Ron. Thank you. I appreciate you. Uh wait, hold on. I had something for Whiz. Uh I forgot because Whiz Whiz Whiz said something about uh what what did he say? Uh 6 64 wins. Yeah. Sorry. See if I know the leg. I knew it was I knew that was coming. I knew that was n was coming. You never You never know. You never know. Anything could happen, you know. Okay. So, you want to mark You want to mark this day, gentlemen? One year. Where we at? Saturday, August 2nd. Whiz says 64 wins for the Knicks. Okay. We’ll see. Okay. All right. Because I remember I was I was Deuce Hive. I was a Drew Holiday. Get Drew Holiday cuz before Boston gets him. I can go through the list of of things I’m going to tell you right now. Ah 64, baby. 60. Listen, let me get around to y’all get y’all final words because I do want to get So, uh listen uh and once again I just want to say first off uh uh it’s uh I want to say thank you to everybody for the well wishes and the condolences. It’s a celebration of life for a young man who uh was gone too soon, but he had a incredible life. Shout out once again to my guy Jamal Lil Horse Lynch. Uh he may not have been here as long as he should be, but he was here long enough for to for to leave an impact for us and for us to remember him uh for those who knew him. So, that being said, your your final words about this this this little uh uh next whatever we want to call it, whatever we I don’t want to say the offseason is still going, so and we got some time to wait, but your final words for whatever you think is going on. And you know, we still don’t have a um a uh um assistant head coach. Guys, any got any thoughts, a guess of who that could be these days? Because I’m like I’m I’m at a loss for words. Let me bring my guy Jay Chosen in here, too. I’m sorry Jay you coming in on the final words but we’ll get your words no neither uh you know nevertheless what up my brother salute salute what’s up Nick yes so let’s do this let’s let’s go around and then we’ll leave Jay for the last words so he can say whatever he wants to say so uh Sha first off you know whatever you want to say but any thoughts on another coach that we could look at because we looking at all these people that just not they ain’t leaving I I don’t know anything about the coach just because the coach the way they’re looking at these coaches is getting a little uh nerve-wracking, you know what I mean? Uh they will make their choices. Uh we only got about six weeks, six to eight weeks before uh uh preseason, I mean before the training camp starts and stuff like that. So they’ll make some choices in another week or two. Well, finally f probably by the sometime this week, we might probably will finalize on that uh vet minimum guy and bring the the other guy in on the the rookie the rookie guy and something to talk about some more about the Knicks and um I’m just here glad to be here, glad to talk about it. Thank you for having me on, Ron. Uh Whiz, thanks for you to be on uh um uh uh the economy show. Uh Fritz, I had to think. I had to say the name first. Prince, thank you for being on here. Uh Jay Chosen, my man, what’s going on? I talked to you in a little bit and stuff like that. I Ron, get get out there and support your peoples out there. Like I said, once again, my condolences. Uh from what I seen on the on what you call it I watched, uh he looked like a pretty cool dude. So I mean, my condolences, dude. I ain’t gonna lie to you. Even me today at this memorial, sir, I learned so much more about this young man than I already knew. And I’m like, damn it, man. I wish I I said this. I I I I got I got up enough courage to speak and I said I wish I knew him better than I did man. Really gone too soon. Um uh Whiz, your final words, my brother. First let me again condolences and um and and the fact that I actually had a chance to play against him on West for Street. He played West for a bunch of times. Yeah. No, he he played he played actually, you know, I I knew a little bit about his stuff, but you know, like I said, uh I was closer to his older brother and he was off a lot. So, he did a lot of different things like the fact that he made the New York Knicks D-League squad. This is before GLeague, y’all. He made the D-League squad and he was playing with them uh for a while and he unfortunately never got to get his NBA dreams met because he he just it it didn’t work out. Um he even went overseas for a while and then when he came back he he wanted to make one more go of it and he tried he tried to get a try out with the Brooklyn Nets. He got the try out but he got hurt and he couldn’t get it from that point. Once he got hurt he was never the same. But yeah, young man played a lot of ball all over the place. So you ain’t lying, Whiz. Oh yeah, played again. I mean, and he had some moves that I’ve never seen anybody else did. Like body control, his handle was tight. I mean, I think he tried to dunk for me one time and I think I think I kind of I kind of fouled him because I couldn’t get, you know, West for you can’t get duck on West Four Street, man. You can’t get dunk on over there. That that’ll live with you. The whole crowd was at the fence looking in and I was like and he he was a little mad at me for a little while. It’s like come on man why you know cuz nor sometimes you let guy go when you got to break away let him have the dunk you that’s kind of courtesy with West for you don’t try to go for you know chase down I don’t I don’t know why my instincts just took over u so much much respect for him man he was an excellent excellent ball player and um as far as my next I just really um I see so much potential I see the east is not wide open but I see the opportunities for us to do some serious work Um, sorry, you know, again, respect for Tibs, but I think it was time for a change. This last series proved it. His lack of ability to be flexible and use his coaches and use his players. Both of those scenarios of not opening up the, you know, ideas for the bench with his coaches to put have input and not have, you know, nine 10 players at least get a taste of the of the game and rotation changes just to see what it would look like. when we met someone that maybe, you know, knew our game and stopped us. So, it was time for a change. I think Mike Brown is a solid candidate and a lot of um Sacramento fans out here in Cali and they they they all they miss him. They go, “Yes, he actually made us, you know, really felt, you know, relevant again and like we could have gone all the way.” Um I’m looking forward to next season that again, I’m putting it down. I’m making my mark. 64 wins just because now playoffs again ECF I’m predicting but I’m I’m not going to be I won’t hesitate and say NBA finals next will be in the East this year and we’re going to like said 120 points a game 64 victories and solid defense and we’re going to just have be celebrating next year even if we don’t make it to the trip we’re going to get that finals game and then the next NBA finals being held at the garden is where The universe will be right again and all all pain will go away. Time to celebrate, baby. Let’s go. I’m jumping out the window, man. I’m out off the edge. I’m over the edge. I’m out the window. I don’t care. That’s right. Okay. All right. That’s fine. Listen, that that’s fair. Um, you’re entitled to your opinion. I hope you’re right. I don’t think you are, but I’ll take it. Um, all right. That’s fair. Before I get over to Fritz, let me let me go the other way. You know, I don’t give this to the to the chat too often, but you gonna get it. Wolverine, listen. Wolverine says 49 wins, second round exit. Mike Brown fired after one year. First off, we won 51 games for 15 of those games. We got a new coach, new offense. I I listen here. Listen for you, buddy. See if I know the edge right out the window of you. Okay. You Ah, no. I appreciate you though. That’s Yeah, Wolverine. Like, hey, come on now. What’s going You not Are you not regenerating? Is the anthanium dried up in your body? Like, you ain’t acting like the Wolverine I know. Like, what’s going on? No, it’s the wrong It’s the wrong Wolverine. My bad. Back in. No, I appreciate you, bro. I hear you, man. Uh, listen. I think we’re gonna be okay, though. I think we’re gonna be better than we were. Um, and and let’s let’s go from there. Shout out to Fritz. Fritz, what’s your final words, my brother? Um, yeah, I’m I’m I’m I’m right now I’m I’m I’m kind of clueless of where we’re at. Like, honestly, uh, so I I I really think the Knicks could do something interesting. I I I just see, you know, Ben Simmons is something they do need. They’re obviously offering him the backup point guard spot. And if you have Ben Simmons, not sure uh how you feel about Mitch at that point, having two guys who don’t shoot well. So, um there’s a lot of questions still left to be answered. I hear you. I mean, that’s true. And listen, guys, uh it’s been going in and out for the most part, but I think I checked it. It was okay. But uh I know that uh for some of you the stream may not be as as polished or look as good. I don’t know what’s going on today and you know like I said I jumped in right from the memorial service. I didn’t have time to reset my router or anything. So it was it had a really good connection for a while and now it could be a little stagnant. So I hope you guys can kind of get an idea of what’s going on. I apologize for it not being crispy but it is what it is. We’re trying to get through it. Jay the chosen one first off. appreciate you, my brother. Hope you’re doing well. What’s on your mind today? What’s happening? What in your final words? Let us know. Okay. Uh, condolences. I lost somebody, too. Actually, that’s where I was. Um, Oh, wow. Sorry to hear that. Got a little too much for me. So, I stepped out. I watched and listened. It was therapy. I appreciate you. It’s always, you know, sports. Just want to say this, man. This is sports. You know, we should never like be ripping each other apart over people who are getting millions and millions and millions of dollars to enjoy their life and play sports. This is a thing for us. It’s like therapy for me. Watching sports is therapy for me. And watching your show is And by the way, it was crispy the whole time. So, I don’t know if anybody else saw it, but I saw it as crispy. Um, sorry. I just got lost in the thought of No, no, that’s okay. You get it. of the losing people thing got my brain for a second. It’s all right. Take your time, brother. You know, here here’s the deal. I I think the the future’s bright. That’s number one. Um, I, you know, as far as the coaching going, I’ve been really, I’m kind of like, in what Sha said, I’m kind of, you know, not sure exactly where they’re going. I know we need some almost football like defensive like I like I like where the offense is going. I like exactly where the offense is looking. Um, we all like certain different people. It was it was um nice of Bridges to take a little cut. Uh, I know nobody in their right mind would take a bigger cut. I wish he did. I know um people think that he’s worth more than the cut that he is. my in my opinion he has to show us that uh so for me it’s not my money I can’t really say anything but if it could get us a really like I don’t want to look here here’s the deal I don’t want a a back end of the player let’s say you guys like Ben I don’t like Ben right not because I don’t like Ben as a zone like I want somebody who’s going to be able to play consistently play if possible if needed. You know, a person that comes in maybe constantly. Um, you know, I don’t know what people, you know, exactly that might be. Uh, but Ben Simmons seems to have fell apart in my mind almost every year of his career. And I don’t um, and it’s unfortunate because he’s filled with an immense amount of talent, you know. And uh it’s unfortunate, but I I I was hoping that they got somebody like a Pablo Vision. That’s somebody I wanted. He was a smart, you know, he wasn’t filled with a like a fantastic amount of talent necessarily on the court, but if you remember, he was a court he was a court general. Like he he called out the plays. He knew what to call. He knew where to tell people to move. smart man. Uh so you know you know the how the old saying is that you are who you hang with. If you bring smart people around you, it only makes you better. So we just need people to be around Mike, you know, uh to be around so that he could elevate his game, do what he does and let him let other people worry about certain things. It seems it’s gonna be a very off offensively driven team. In a lot of places I’ve seen, they have us at number two in like four out of like six major places that I’ve seen behind Oklahoma. Um I think we’ll win 58 games this year. I want to say 60 but we always end up losing a stupid game like a nonsense game like a you know everybody’s hurt Charlotte and we still lost type game Spurs knock will kill us. So you know I just look I think that we’re going in the right direction. Uh it’s unfortunate uh that that they didn’t bring this bench in. Uh I’m not an apologist for him. I don’t care either way. I don’t eat or hang out with these people or eat food with these people. But that Tibs didn’t have a bench like this. But now we are where we are. We can’t go backwards. Can’t The only time you should look backwards is to see where you came from. So we’re coming from a a season where we went to an elevated place. We have to go higher than that place. Now that’s that’s my total opinion. We have taken steps like this. The next step is the finals. It’s f for me. It’s finals of bust. Right. Yeah. So my condolences to you and to more importantly to the family. uh of the young of the young man. Uh it’s so sad to see talent and and life just just uh ripped away from people. Just terrible, unfortunate. And I’ve been through a lot of things in my life where I was yay close and I’m going tell you, man, take life precious. Give people their flowers while they’re here. Tell people that you love them today while they’re here. because you might not have the chance tomorrow. Don’t forget that. That’s a fact. So, uh, my final words that, uh, want to know how I feel about you and your and your show. So, I just wanted to hop on and say hello. It’s been a minute because I’m busy trying to get my stuff going. So, um, we’ll talk soon. No doubt. And uh by the way, whiz, thank God you did what you did because in West for Street, but you could have forgot about it, brother. I used I used to live in Lower East Side. I would stay over there. Something happened to you like that, you weren’t allowed back in the park. Exactly. Exactly. It could be bad. Like anything happened at West Fourth or the Rucker Park, you never live that down, bro. That’s like it’s going to follow you for you. Like y’all still talking about that? Yeah. Three three year three years later, right? West Westport is the Rucker downtown. Yes. You know what I mean? Yeah. Blessings to everybody. I just want those memories last forever, man. Your kids kids will hear about that. Like no doubt about it. No doubt about it. Anyway, I want to thank you guys once again. Uh my condolences to to you Jay as well to to you know um you and everyone who knew the person that passed away. Um you know this is a tough time man. We just got to get through it. Every day is a new day and we are blessed to wake up and be here because like you said you never know man. So give the flowers to those around you who who who need to hear it because you just you know time is not is not waiting man. It’s going. We just we we here for the ride. So, right. Well, let me say one one last thing if you don’t mind to to all the men out there like we were raised to do certain things, right? Be a man. Don’t, you know, don’t let out whatever you feel. Use these, not this or, you know, use both, whatever it might be. That’s all BS, right? It’s all right to tell somebody you love them. It’s all right to tell your friends you love them. It’s all right to tell people like that because if you don’t one day, you can’t one day. Don’t forget that. It’s not soft. It’s not whack. It’s none of that. It’s beautiful. You know what I’m saying? So, peace and blessings to the world. You know, all everybody. Thank you. Appreciate that, my brother. Thank you so much. Uh, and shout out, guys, if y’all haven’t checked it out. I seen it already, but if y’all haven’t checked out, please go to Fritz Alcenda Jr.’s channel, uh, the NBA economy show, and check out his interview with SC Scoopy, um, that aired this past Wednesday. He talked about a lot of different things with the Knicks. Um he also talked about Ben Simmons and how the the news about Ben Simmons being uh you know coming to the Knicks being um you know long gone and forgotten was not true because according to Scoop who has you know spoken to people close to Ben Simmons if not I don’t know I don’t know I I couldn’t I don’t remember exactly everything that was said but you know he knew he knows that Ben Simmons is still considering the Knicks. Just throwing that out there. So just keep that in mind. So, check out uh uh NBA economy shows interview with Scoopy. Uh oh, there it is. It’s in the Let me see. Can I grab it? Cuz you’re not a uh you know, hold on one second because you my guy. Uh let me see if I can Can I get it from here? One second. One second. I gotta make you uh a thingy. And I know you know what that is. So, hold on one second. One second. I apologize, guys. Get right before we get out of here. Uh, see how fast I can do this. Yeah, we’ll see about them, man. Once they start clicking, they’re gonna be all right, guys, in the Oh, yeah. By the way, yeah. Yeah, tell tell them, Jay, cuz our Mets are going to be all right. They They’re a little jackal and hide, you know, but they are. They are. Go Yankees, baby. We going through a lot of stuff right now, man. All our pitchers are hurt, you know. They coming back and forth. Our top our top guys are uh not producing right now. But you know them kid the kids are starting to produce should be happy about that. Top guys will produce. They have produced. They will produce. Have faith. That’s a fact. I have faith. That’s a fact. There we go. So now now uh you can click on the link that uh Fritz put out there. Um let me pin it. Pin it real quick. Real time. One time for the one time. Appreciate you. And yeah, and and not for nothing, listen, don’t get it twisted. This is a New York City hat. This is a Met hat. It’s it’s, you know, let’s let’s keep it real. Don’t Mets. What team? This is Don’t Don’t do that. Don’t do that with me. Are they Are they in the pro? Are they in the major leagues? Uhhuh. Yeah, we in the major leagues. And the major leagues are hurt. That’s right. Listen, I don’t know what everybody else is doing. We we we still Listen, we we are right there in our division at being the number one team. Okay? We lost last night and the Phillies won. So, I think they overtook us, but that’s okay. We we playing we playing, you know, back and forth right now. It’s going to be We The funny thing is, guys, I’m going say this again. Mets are not playing their best baseball and we we we battling back and forth for first place. Calm down, everybody. Calm down. calm down. Once they I’m just say I’ll be the judge. Oh. Oh, I see what you did there. I’ll be the judge. Don’t forget we were five up just about a month ago. We’ll be five up in a month from now. Don’t worry about it. Hold on. This is for you, Whiz. Thank Thank you. Thank you, Whiz. All right. Anyway, uh guys, listen. I appreciate y’all as always. Um, and I Oh, I also want to apologize. Everything got thrown off of me this week. I was supposed to do a state of the game about gambling in the NBA and certain players getting caught in stuff outside of basketball, right? But I pivoted because this week was I forgot about certain things. Everything was happening. The baseball trade deadline was happening, all this stuff. And then I said, you know what? I need to do a Met show. I just didn’t have time to put it all together because I’m trying to put when it comes to that show. I got to put things together and I need the content and I need the the the information. I didn’t have enough time to put it together, guys. And I’m not just going to Hey, let me go live. What up, guys? Mets, let’s go. No, I had I wanted to put something together. I just didn’t have enough time. So, I still need to do a show about the Giants again because of what we got going on. You know, it’s we’re getting hot and heavy, bro. Training camp is over. The Giant football is about to be real. It’s about to be a lituation, y’all. And then my Mets with all the train to solidify the bullpen and you know, I’m happy about that. They damn sure did. They damn sure did, Ron. They solidified that B. So, I just I need some time to put it all together. Just, you know, bear with me. But I apologize. I hate giving information that’s false. It’s just I I’m not going to just I didn’t have the time and I’m just not going to do it if if I can’t do it right. So, it is what it is. Anyway, I recorded four lives about the Mets and I didn’t like any of them, so I was like, “Oh, man. Come on. Well, we’ll get it together anyway.” Oh, yes. Let’s go. Nice. Nice. Let’s go, Pete. Polar bear Pete. Yes. Oh, is that it? All right. Night. Yeah. Uhhuh. Uhhuh. Uhhuh. They caught up though, but Yeah. Uh, so anyway, yeah, we we lost four in a row after winning six in a row. The the damn Hey. All right. All right. All right. Look. It’s a tough crowd. Yo, there’s a lot of Yankees Yankee hate out there. Be all right. Anyway, all right. Well, thank you guys once again. Thank you for the condolences. Thank you for all the Nick the the Nick takes today. Appreciate the caller Nick Nation. Appreciate my guys who joined in. Uh Fritz Alcenda, Jay Chosen, Whiz, uh BKLA, Sha Pow is in the building. Sorry we couldn’t get Jay Boogie, but he said he was having some technical difficulties. We will get him next time around. Uh we haven’t talked to him in a minute since he’s been recovering from his surgery. Uh so hopefully he’s doing well. And hey, man, once again, I appreciate everybody. Stay tuned. Look for uh SKF Weekly on Monday night. We’ll be talking more about whatever’s going on with the Knicks. And I don’t know, who knows? Maybe I’ll decide to do the state of the game tomorrow. It’s Sunday. Maybe I I’ll have a little time to do it. We’ll see. But it’s it it’s coming soon, guys. Anyway, thank you guys for being patient. Thank you guys for supporting and rocking with us. We are on the road to 10K. Smash that like button. Um and show your love. And uh let’s continue support, man. Let’s go Knicks. Uh hey, you know what I always say, tell a friend who tells a friend who tells another friend. Still Nick fans. We’ll be back again. Whether it be on Saturdays at 11:30 or today 1:30, 2 o’clockish. My bad y’all for uh know the ledge or on Monday nights at 9:00 p.m. for SKF weekly with myself, my brother John, and my brother Jose holding it down on the ones and twos and state of the game whenever I can actually find a place for it throughout the week. Whenever I can, I will. So, thank you guys once again for all the support. As you know, I always say be good and if we can’t be good, be good at it. You know how it is. Uh, shout out Paul O’Neal 1997, but we lost. Oh, damn. APAP, I see what you did there. I love Paul O’Neal, by the way. But anyway, let me get off of this. Um, I liked him, too. But I hate Yeah, he was good. He was good. Just enough fire to be a New Yorker. I loved it. Any All right. U did that, Jay. Um, all right, guys. Listen, as as I always say, good, the bad, the ups and downs, no matter what, we are still Nick fans. I’ll catch y’all. Enjoy this day. Uh, if you have some time, get out there. If you haven’t got out there, um, please do. It’s a beautiful, beautiful day. Hey, the weather is fantastic in New York. Um, and uh, you know, once again, take care and uh, let’s hope let’s hope this whole Ben Simmons thing get resolved soon because he’s, you know, this is taking forever. I rather he be on the team or not on the team. Can we just move on? Let’s go. Thank you. Shout out to those. The reason why we got the Macau Bridges thing done is apparently the Knicks reached out and and Giannis Antoopo is not going anywhere. Thank you. Thank you for somebody reaching out and getting put this nonsense to bed so we can move on. I’m tired of people stringing us along, having us in the sweep stakes like come on, let’s let’s go. We we a team. We trying to win a championship. We ain’t waiting for nobody. Let them wait for us or try to join us next year when we’re ready. We got we out of here later. Peace. Peace. Don’t move the legs. The legs don’t hey the legs. Don’t move the legs. Don’t move the legs.

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