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this is going to be a long off season
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for the Knicks for a couple of reasons
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number one you never know when you get
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that crack again homecourt advantage in
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the Eastern Conference
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Finals i mean it's been 25 years since
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the Knicks got to an Eastern Conference
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Finals in this one they had home court
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in it but also when I talk about the
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familiarity and the belief the trust
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that the Pacers had in one another the
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Knicks did not have that as soon as the
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Knicks were eliminated you wake up this
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morning and suddenly there's a report in
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the Athletic about how the Knicks
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consistently were frustrated by Carl
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Towns lack of commitment or whatever it
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flight towards defense that they did not
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know where he was going to be they did
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not understand what he was trying to do
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and that there were things this year
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beyond just big cat where the Knicks
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were at odds at times and the male
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Bridges thing this year was ongoing
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throughout the entire season you trade
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away all these draft picks and what do
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shooting a hodgepodge on defense and
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very inconsistent sometimes invisible
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ghostlike play during the regular season
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now there were a couple of tremendous
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defensive plays that male Bridges made
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in the in the Celtics series but this
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Knicks team having traded Julius Randall
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and Dante Devincenzo to get Carl Anthony
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Towns lost some of the bond and the
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trust that they had last year and this
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is going to be a long off season because
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now there's already people that want to
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trade Carl Anthony Towns which I don't
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know if he's tradable with that contract
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and I don't know if you want to blow it
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up or change parts again after just one
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season but you saw the Knicks in this
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series on their heels so
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often and I think one of the things and
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you know look I I I did take glee in
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watching the Knicks falter not because I
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dislike the Knicks but because Knicks
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fans had gotten so far ahead of
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themselves they were so obnoxious so
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many of them and so aggressive that it
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was like you guys need to be cut down a
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size just a little bit you know how many
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of you have been around since the Knicks
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were last good in the 90s how many of
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you are really just out here trying to
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make trouble how many of you say you're
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a Knicks fan but really aren't a Knicks
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fan how many of you really know
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basketball and how many of you are just
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here to party and punch other people in
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the face and to taunt Brian Winhorst
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because that's a big line and I was just
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you know to to act as though you'd won
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anything after going to the Eastern
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Conference Finals after beating the
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Celtics with like you know slow the roll
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and there was such an arrogance about
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this oh higher seed homecourt advantage
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can't stop the Knicks Jaylen Bruntton
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yada yada yada well the Pacers prove
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what great basketball was and the Knicks
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didn't play great basketball and in the
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offseason they have to really
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contemplate this with themselves are we
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capable of playing great basketball
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when Jaylen Brunson's high usage when
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he's on the floor with Carl Anthony
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Towns it feels like Big Cat sometimes
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gets pushed to the background both those
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guys are problems defensively male
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Bridges comes and goes josh Hart plays
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most of the game and looks absolutely
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awful they don't have a great bench to
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go to tom Tibido might be you know kind
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of a a second rate coach in terms of
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when he he matches up against really
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great coaches there's a lot of questions
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there and can you win with this current
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roster at the highest level getting to
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an NBA finals or winning an NBA
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championship plus when how often do you
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get this chance when you had it in your
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building games one games two and game
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seven and you blew them all you lost one
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and two and it didn't even get to a game
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seven how often will you ever have that
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chance in an in a in an East that broke
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open jason Tatum goes down the Cleveland
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Cavaliers is a 64 win team they go down
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as the one seed giannis goes down in the
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first in the first round all of these
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potential roadblocks were pushed out of
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your way and this is what you
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got losing six of the Pacers that's
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that's going to be a long off season
