Esper Haney
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59 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Esper Haney’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah. They have players that also have gotten better within their system. I mean, Pascal Siakam is a very unique player in that he came in to be whatever it is that they needed him to be, which is exactly what he said last night as well. That's very rare to find, someone that's fine playing second fiddle, fine doing whatever it is that a team needs.
But everyone else, Miles Turner, Tyrese Halliburton, everyone has gotten better within their system. And that, to me, I think is a very unique, quality of small markets because you can't afford to be this big time ego in a small market. You've got to play up to the brand of Indiana or whatever, or OKC. You're seeing this in all of these small markets. I don't know what's going on with Utah.
Utah got to pick it up, but everyone else, it feels as if these brands of basketball, the players are feeding into the brand, into what's on the front of the jersey as opposed to let me get my individual game off. And it also happens because there hasn't been a ton of players on that roster that have skipped around to multiple teams.
They've been within that system, they've grown within that system, and it's allowed them to mesh in a way that we're not seeing with other teams.
Yeah, the conditioning of this team is like you feel as if they've got the second wind, but it's really because they have depth. They just have rotational players. But I thought the most endearing thing that is very indicative of how this team looks at Tyrese Halliburton when it comes to defense was, I can't remember, it was in the fourth quarter.
Tyrese made a play, some sort of deflection happened, and he almost had it and ended up getting, you know, knocked out of bounds and he ends up in the bench and James Johnson and Thomas Bryant like hug him up. And they're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, you did it. You you're doing it. You're doing it.
And it's like, that is so endearing of like, we don't, we don't look to you to be our defensive stopper, but like, good job. Like you're trying, there you go. That, that sort of energy around him of just like, keep going, et cetera.
I'm not seeing the same level of like full enthusiasm from the Knicks bench as much as I'm seeing for any type of play that McHale is making, that Josh Hart is making, any type of rebounds that he's making. It's kind of like that's the expectation.
And so with Tyrese, it's like any other thing that you can do outside of the offensive boost that you're providing us, we are very excited about and we will continue to encourage you. It's very endearing.
I don't want to find out. It was clearly in the playoffs that he had to come off the bench for something. I can't remember when it was.
He came off the bench and had to, you know. Had to just stand up for a little bit, but I think quickly.
Maybe that's what it was. Yeah.
They traded Paul George for SGA, Danilo Gallinari, the five first rounders, and two pick swaps. I'm wondering if he was a pick swap.
And then the picks from that deal were used or traded for Jalen Williams, Kaysen Wallace, and others. Yeah.
Interesting.
It was actually very strange how much of a fall-off he had in OKC.
I thought he got hurt again in OKC. I don't know about that.
I just remember him getting hurt in OKC and it kind of feeling like this is a good thing that he doesn't have to go and play basketball because he looked miserable in OKC. Yeah. Sorry. I was actually, while you guys were talking, I was looking up, you were talking about how no one expected Shea Gildas Alexander to be the player that he was.
But I vividly remember Draymond Green and Steph Curry being like, no, we knew that he was going to be this good. And I was like, Really?
But they have said that. But they've said this for a while, that they saw this when they played in that first round against the Clippers in 2019. And I was just looking up his stats. He played in those games. It was Warriors in six. And it was a battle. I don't know if you guys remember that playoff series, but it was a legitimate battle.
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