GAME 4 REACTION 🗣️ Would the Knicks rather play the Pistons or Cavs in the ECF⁉️ | Inside the NBA

0:00 Uh 144 to 114 is your final as the Knicks complete a sweep.

0:05 Wow.

0:06 Uh they they swept the Baltimore Bullets in 1969.

0:09 They swept the Atlanta Hawks in 1999, 30 years later.

0:14 And now they [music] sweep the Philadelphia 7.

0:16 That is in best of seven.

0:18 Okay.

0:18 How about he got swept by them?

0:20 Oh yeah.

0:21 He jumped.

0:22 That's the only time I ever got swept.

0:23 300.

0:24 Um after the game, uh Lisa Salters with Jaylen Brunson.

0:30 Jaylen, closeout games are supposed to be the hardest.

0:33 Just how have you guys been able to make it look so easy?

0:38 I think we're we're looking at it like just a game one quarter at a time,

0:44 one possession at a time.

0:46 Uh not really focusing on the circumstances of the game,

0:48 just uh just going out there and playing

0:50 for each other and um just trying to stay focused.

0:53 The three-point shooting today was just off the charts.

0:56 25 made threes that tied an NBA playoff record.

0:59 Just what was the key to the three ball tonight?

1:02 Uh I think it started with our defense and then um

1:04 us being able to get in transition and uh create good looks.

1:08 Um everything started with defensive side of the ball and um yeah,

1:13 made things made things a lot easier for us.

1:15 Yeah, Miles McBride kind of set the tone

1:17 in the first quarter with his three-point shooting.

1:19 What impressed you about the way Deuce

1:21 and Landry Sham both have stepped in for OG?

1:24 I mean, that's what they do.

1:25 Um I mean, and it just happened to be they're both locked in on the same day.

1:29 I mean, they they do that and um the amount

1:32 of open looks they got created a a great rhythm,

1:34 created better more confidence for them,

1:36 and then um the kept going through hoop for them.

1:38 It's now seven consecutive wins for you guys.

1:40 Just what has been unlocked, fallen into place,

1:44 call it whatever, but since going down in that Atlanta series,

1:48 I mean, we're focused now.

1:50 We're staying poised, staying composed.

1:52 Um, just focus on the little things.

1:54 Uh, one day at a time, one game at a time.

1:57 Uh, just not looking ahead at all.

1:58 Staying in the moment.

1:59 Eastern Conference Finals are next.

2:01 But when you guys are playing like this, does it really matter who you face?

2:06 One game at a time.

2:07 One game at a time.

2:08 We'll we'll cross the bas.

2:10 Congrats on the win.

2:11 We'll see you in the finals.

2:15 Seven.

2:16 Yeah, seven straight wins.

2:17 Knicks have never done that in their playoff history.

2:20 Uh 25 threes made today, 25 out of 44.

2:25 Um and that ties the NBA record.

2:29 Um look, Shaq, two weekends ago and New York Knick fans are like,

2:36 uhoh, the sky might be falling.

2:37 They're down two games to one facing really

2:39 a must win in Atlanta to avoid falling down 3-1.

2:42 They haven't lost a game since.

2:44 Yeah.

2:44 One thing about New Yorkers, they will never lose confidence.

2:47 you have to really beat a New Yorker and keep beating them.

2:49 Even though they they were down those games versus Hawks,

2:52 they knew that they wasn't really particularly playing that well.

2:56 So, they they just said themselves,

2:57 they're going to play better, going to play defense.

3:00 Cat's been uh uh great.

3:02 All the other guys have been great.

3:03 Anobi has been great.

3:05 But, you know, my favorite player today was uh McBride.

3:09 You know, when you're on a team and you play

3:10 with a specialist and a specialist has a special game,

3:13 it gets everybody pumped up.

3:14 This guy is a bonafide shooter.

3:16 So, you know, to start the game, you know, four for four,

3:19 five for five, six for six, that just really got the Knicks going.

3:22 You know, that's a guy who went one for six

3:24 and one for five from three in the previous game,

3:27 starting for OG, and tonight just lights it up.

3:30 Well, it gets real again uh in the next round for the Knicks.

3:35 Boy, you were already looking ahead.

3:37 Oh, they they're they're ahead.

3:38 Yeah.

3:38 So they are so you know Cleveland

3:42 uh and both Pistons have caused problems at times for the Knicks this year.

3:49 So, um, looking ahead, if you look at if it's the Pistons,

3:54 the fact of K Cunningham being such a big guard, um,

3:59 that would give the Knicks problems and then the two back possibly the most

4:05 explosive back court in the NBA coming in there as well with Harden or Mitchell.

4:11 So, this round was a a a resting round,

4:16 but the next round will look very similar to the last round

4:18 with the Hawks where they have people who they can guard them.

4:22 They have they match up in certain positions.

4:24 This it won't be a cakewalk

4:25 from this hard on, but congratulations to the Knicks.

4:28 Yeah.

4:29 Um, so yeah, Chuck, I know you you love these.

4:34 Detroit swept New York in the regular season

4:37 and the Knicks took two out of three from the Cavs.

4:40 Jaylen Duran didn't play in any of those games for Detroit.

4:42 Yeah, that's why I think those stats are all useless.

4:44 Uh I think that the Knicks would probably prefer to play the Pistons.

4:48 It's a better matchup for them cuz in what ways?

4:52 Uh because the Pistons struggling to score.

4:54 They always struggle to score.

4:56 Now Cleveland, to me,

4:58 Cleveland has the most talent in the Eastern Conference if they play.

5:02 Uh if James and Donovan play well,

5:05 you got the two big guys like they if if they play,

5:09 you know, you never know which Cavaliers team you're going to get.

5:12 Uh but you know, if you play Detroit, you got Cade Tobias has played great.

5:17 Duran has really struggled in the playoffs.

5:19 So I think it's a better matchup if they play the Pistons even though you

5:22 go by that regular season stuff because

5:24 the Knicks the Knicks are going to score.

5:27 Uh but what's interesting about New Yorkers, why they so annoying?

5:30 What [snorts] are you waiting?

5:31 I'm sitting here.

5:32 So, we were in Atlanta.

5:33 Well, yeah.

5:34 Well, yeah.

5:34 No.

5:35 Oh, no.

5:35 You annoying as a person.

5:36 I'm talking about New York [laughter] Knicks fans.

5:38 So, Ernie, we were in Atlanta and Shaq Shaq just said we were in Atlanta.

5:43 I was we do the show here.

5:45 So, 10 days ago when the Knicks were down two to one.

5:51 We're in the hotel.

5:52 Same hotel as the Knicks.

5:54 What do you think?

5:55 Should we fire Mike Brown and go get Giannis?

5:59 This one.

5:59 They were down 2-1.

6:00 This is 10 days ago, Ernie.

6:02 Yeah.

6:02 Two week two weekends ago.

6:04 Yeah.

6:04 They're like, "Chuck, what do you think?" I said,

6:05 "Yo, man, this we if we just stay down 2-1.

6:08 Relax." And they were like, "No, we got to get rid of Mike Brown.

6:12 He's not taking us further.

6:13 We got to go get Giannis.

6:14 Blah blah blah blah blah." And you like a week later,

6:18 they're like, "We're going to the finals." That's true.

6:20 Then if that's annoying, I've heard that.

6:22 Everybody, every one of my relatives in New

6:24 York called me and said that exact same thing.

6:26 They were like, "Fire Mike Ryder and bring Yiantis." So maybe maybe we are.

6:30 But I I will say this.

6:32 When we we're not traveling for the conference finals.

6:37 Um

6:37 we will for the NBA finals.

6:40 Yes.

6:39 New York is different.

6:41 When we were there for the conference finals last year, it is it is bananas.

6:45 It's it's amazing.

6:48 It would be I I would love to see them I don't ever care who wins.

6:52 That's just not what we do.

6:53 But I ain't gonna lie.

6:54 I would love to see them in the finals and we traveling for the finals.

6:57 It would be

6:59 well

6:58 it would be crazy.

6:59 Let let me take it from a person who played in the finals

7:02 against New York and being a New Yorker it's very annoying and very different.

7:06 Uh so um the most incredible part I went I had

7:12 to go to I left my toiletry bag with toothpaste and everything.

7:16 So I go to CVS

7:17 with toothpaste toothpaste.

7:19 Okay.

7:20 And so I go into CVS during the NBA finals and I

7:25 walk in and the guy goes uh in on hour three

7:29 we need to clean up clean up for Houston Rockets and the whole

7:32 place start booing the whole CVS are booing as I'm bringing

7:36 up toothpaste and then it is a different place to play

7:40 in New York City and why you hate my stories Shaq always [laughter]

7:43 JUST HATING ON MY I ALWAYS BIG UP YOUR stories and oh

7:47 yeah and Kobe Bryant gave me this And Horus Grant did that.

7:50 Come on, Shaq.

7:52 Throw him a bone.

7:53 Funny story.

7:54 Come on, man.

7:55 Lead up on aisle three, Houston Rockets.

7:57 Well, in fairness, Shaq, I'm with you on this one.

7:59 Yeah, man.

8:00 You should always grab toothpaste first.

8:02 Listen, toothpaste.

8:04 I left my toiletry bag.

8:06 I have a whole bag.

8:07 You Come on.

8:08 This is This is fascinating.

8:11 Um, so Hayden McGrade over there.

8:13 Look, you're a you're a big Killer Instinct guy.

8:16 Do you have that?

8:18 Now look, round one, chance to close out.

8:20 The Hawks beat them by what?

8:22 51.

8:23 You win today by 30 in [music] a closeout situation.

8:27 What have the Knicks shown you?

8:29 They've shown me that they are ready.

8:31 And uh I have to disagree with both guys.

8:34 I think they will breeze through whoever they Oh my good stuff.

8:40 Whoever the next opponent is if they

8:42 continue to play like this, they're playing well.

8:43 They're very connected.

8:44 They're on all cylinders.

8:46 They don't make excuses when they have a bad game.

8:48 They always step up and

8:50 Jack, did you see him last week?

8:52 Yeah, that was last week.

8:53 That was last week.

8:54 Two weeks ago.

8:55 Yeah, but when you have an advantage against one team,

8:58 the advantage doesn't change.

9:00 So, you can do it every night and like the Knicks did.

9:03 They won't have the same advantages against Cleveland and or Detroit.

9:06 And Kenny's 100% right.

9:07 Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.

9:09 Let me respond.

9:10 Donovan and James Harden are not defensive specialists.

9:13 They can score.

9:14 Are they offensive specialists?

9:17 No.

9:17 Yes, they are.

9:18 No, one of them is.

9:19 No, no, they both are.

9:20 James Hart James Hart had one killer game yesterday and it wasn't even killer.

9:24 He just had three timely baskets.

9:25 Don't Don't start that.

9:27 But he he three timely baskets, different Wait, time out.

9:31 There's different timely baskets where they swing the ball.

9:33 Swing the ball and he shoots it.

9:35 His timely was get out the way 10 seconds and let me get a basket.

9:41 One game.

9:41 That's different.

9:42 We got a long way to go before we worry about that.

9:44 But I will say this to pick it back on Kenneth's point.

9:48 They've had a cakewalk.

9:50 The two teams they have played.

9:52 Obviously, Philly is got a the injuries and who's going to play or not,

9:57 they're not very good.

9:58 The Hawks got a bright future, but they're not ready for prime time yet.

10:02 I love what they're doing here in Atlanta,

10:04 but they're not ready for prime time yet.

10:07 This has actually been a great matchup.

10:10 what you're gonna see going forward, whoever it is, Cleveland,

10:12 Detroit, and the Knicks, they have been the three best teams.

10:16 You know, we we all thought Boston,

10:18 I never thought Boston, I never picked to the finals.

10:21 We thought that Boston when they got Tat Tatum back,

10:24 they were just going to breeze.

10:25 I said, "No, no, I still have I still I'm still with the Cavaliers,

10:29 but the three best teams are still playing right now." So,

10:33 whoever they play is going to be a very difficult series.

10:37 And let me tell you something, that Cleveland Detroit series,

10:39 it's a seven game series in my opinion.

10:41 And that's a good thing for the Knicks, right?

10:43 I mean, you want that thing to go as long as I don't actually agree with that.

10:47 Yeah,

10:48 cuz like

10:48 the Cleveland Detroit is not a seven game series.

10:50 Yeah.

10:50 So, well, okay, we don't know that yet.

10:53 But Ernie, what's interesting, that's a long time, the earliest.

10:58 And what's the downside for for uh New York?

11:02 There's there's nothing you can do.

11:03 There's nothing they can do that like they'll probably

11:05 take tomorrow off obviously they'll start practicing Tuesday but there's

11:10 nothing you can do in practice that's going to be

11:13 like get them ready to play on a conference fin

11:18 or any playoff game like it's going to be like

11:20 I say first of all they going to be ready

11:22 I don't believe in the rest a rush thing [snorts]

11:24 but it's still going to be that's a long time yeah

11:28 to to to go especially the way they shooting it.

11:30 Yeah, I I would say I I would say I I would say I do believe in it.

11:35 Clear Yeah, clear something up for me.

11:36 I mean, if you say Russ doesn't matter, then so what?

11:38 How many days they have off?

11:40 Well, I I'm just talking about keeping that that that energy level.

11:45 The way they are playing right now, I want to play every day, right?

11:48 But now they just going to go to practice

11:51 and let the Cavs and Pistons beat up on each other for

11:54 Well, no.

11:55 The only thing that you you you could

11:56 possibly lose is the intensity of the moment.

12:00 No question.

12:01 So like you're when you're playing every day and you're practicing,

12:05 there's a focus, a mental focus to say it's tomorrow.

12:08 It's like studying for a test.

12:10 You know what the night before the test?

12:14 Yeah.

12:13 We love you, Kenny.

12:14 Oh, you get you're great.

12:15 Now they got to walk around New York City for the next week.

12:18 Hey man, y'all going to the finals.

12:20 The edge the edge the edge slips.

12:22 The edge slips.

12:23 The edge is supposed to slip because you don't know who you're playing.

12:26 So my advice to them is enjoy.

12:29 When you figure out who you play, get prepared to them.

12:31 And you had to do the same thing against us.

12:33 We did with the Orlando Magic.

12:35 How many days y'all had off when y'all played us?

12:37 14 days.

12:38 They had 13 days off.

12:40 We were like, "No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

12:43 You can you cannot." For me,

12:45 I just don't think your mental It's like studying the night before a test.

12:49 Like there's a different energy when you studying the night

12:52 before the test than when the test is a week away.

12:55 and and you start losing it.

12:57 The girl who was doing my homework for me in college, I said,

13:00 "I don't want you trying to cram this." Her name is Her name is Paige.

13:04 Get to work on this.

13:04 I said, "Get to work on this whole semester.

13:06 Don't try to cram the last minute cuz I got to be eligible for the tournament."

13:10 Oh my.

13:11 Thank you, Paige.

13:12 Only the third time the Sixers have been swept in a best of seven.

13:17 Um, third time the Knicks have swept a best of seven.

13:20 Uh, there was a best of five, however.

13:23 Um, and the last time the Knicks swept the Sixers, it was [music]

13:26 they brought the 89 playoffs hit the game.

13:30 I never been swept.

13:32 Chuckster at the buzzer.

13:33 Oh my gosh.

13:34 Good shot though.

13:36 I thought you never been swept.

13:38 That's the last time I've ever been swept.

13:40 And it was a best of five, but I cannot.

13:44 Wait, they got to bring the No, they show the

13:46 COME ON.

13:47 HEY, HEY, HEY, HEY.

13:49 Y'all show that.

13:50 No, we're not going to break until we steal

13:52 the No better not be no damn groom out there.

13:55 You got Wait, you got broom came out.

13:59 [laughter]

14:00 Action Jack Sydney look.

14:03 I hate you Mark Jackson.

14:05 I hate you Mark Jackson and Patrick crying.

14:08 He broke the room out on me.

14:09 No, he wasn't.

14:10 He was crying.

14:11 Go back.

14:12 He wasn't crying.

14:12 The first round of the playoff, fool.

14:14 Go back, Ernie.

14:15 He was crying.

14:16 It was the first round of the playoff.

14:18 Buck Jackson, Patrick.

14:19 I hate both of y'all.

14:21 You going to cry, baby.

14:23 You know, I said it and I'm going to say it again.

14:26 I know we lost.

14:27 Um, you know, and I know that's not the right mentality to have,

14:31 but you know, for me, um, this was a success.

14:34 Uh, I came into this year not knowing where I was going to be,

14:39 you know, how long I was going to play,

14:41 if I was even going to play based on how the knee was the last,

14:46 you know, the last few years.

14:47 And you know, I came in um just you know, you know, hoping for the best.

14:52 And I feel like we're in a position where

14:55 we figured out the knee uh hasn't been an issue.

14:59 And you know, and you know,

15:00 if it wasn't for the oblique or like some of the other stuff that I had,

15:04 uh you know, it could have been different as far as you know,

15:07 how many games I, you know, would have played.

15:09 Um but yeah, you know, we came into this season thinking that, you know,

15:15 that there was not much left um you know,

15:18 based on the last two years and uh now I'm sitting here um you know,

15:24 not even worrying about my knee.

15:26 Um you know, and uh the uh season ends for Philly and Joel Embiid 144 to 114.

15:37 And [music] uh it's a team that has trouble 88 88% of their [music]

15:43 payroll in in Embiid, Paul George, VJ, and Maxi.

15:48 Yeah, they in trouble going forward.

15:50 Um they going to have the same team next [music] year,

15:53 and we don't know if they they I mean,

15:56 it's unfortunate, but they're going to have the exact same team next year.

16:00 And uh you know, if if you don't win it and you have the same team,

16:03 you're just not good enough.

16:04 indeed able to play 38 games in the regular season,

16:07 six of their 11 [music] or seven of their 11 postseason games.

16:12 And uh it ends in a sweep against the New York Knicks.

16:15 It's that time.

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16:24 Come on, Ernie.

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16:29 Thank you very much, Dr.

16:31 O'Neal.

16:32 Don't mess up the money maker.

16:34 It is uh it's time for uh time for some fishing.

16:38 Who we got here?

16:39 Be the Philadelphia 76.

16:41 Hey.

16:42 Hey, let me tell you something.

16:43 That that is Hey, Adrian.

16:44 That is the Skookul.

16:46 Hey, Adrian.

16:47 Hey, the great Sylvester Salone, Tulsa King.

16:50 [music] Love it.

16:53 You on that boat.

16:54 We got the cast [music] from Always Sunny in Philadelphia on there.

16:59 Oh, there go Bradley, too.

17:00 Bradley Cooper.

17:01 Bradley Cooper.

17:02 Yes.

17:02 And uh that's the kind of boat you need for the skooker too, Ernie.

17:06 And what is that in the

17:07 Alex taking poetic license by including one of his friends,

17:11 Chris Dub, the hardcore Philadelphia brother.

17:14 Hey, hey, we got a guy.

17:16 He was a hardcore fan.

17:17 Slice [music] is a hardcore fan.

17:19 That's inside the NBA here.

17:21 I'm sorry.

17:23 Coming up, Stanley Cup playoff.

17:25 Yes, two big games tonight.

17:28 Then Vegas and Anaheim.

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