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Chapter 1: What historic comeback did the Knicks achieve in game four?
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Brunson gets it, fires up a three. Shot, no good. The tip, it's gone. It's gone. It's gone with 1.2 remaining.
Pretty, pretty, pretty good.
That's it. It's over. The greatest comeback in NBA playoff history. I think I got my swagger back.
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Chapter 2: How did the Knicks manage to overcome a 29-point deficit?
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It is very rare that we begin with the National Basketball Association on this show, but we absolutely have to after last night's cinema at Madison Square Garden. The New York Knicks set an NBA record for the largest comeback in finals history, down 29 points to somehow beat the San Antonio Spurs 107 to 106.
We're going to play a couple different clips here from last night, starting with the game winning hoop. From former Raptor O.G. Ananobi, here's what it sounded like on ABC.
Go flat for Jalen Brunson. Allow him to operate at the top. 101. Brunson gets it. Fires up a three. Shot and no good. The tip. It's gone. It's gone. It's gone. With 1.2 remaining. Knicks take the lead. O.G. Ananobi. And it's 107-106.
That lead the Knicks took was their first lead of the night and their largest lead of the night, a grand total of one points. But with 1.2 seconds left on the clock, Spurs still had a chance to get a game-winning bucket. Now, you would think with a 7'4 freak of nature on the team and just 1.2 seconds left, maybe you would throw the ball up for Victor Wembenyama to go and try and get a hoop.
Well, I won't spoil it for you, but here's what happened. Again, let's go back to the call.
They have to get it in. Harper loves it inside. Castle hasn't lost it. That's it. It's over. The greatest comeback in NBA playoff history. The Knicks pull off a miracle comeback.
Stephon Castle in this economy with 1.2 seconds left. Down low. Unbelievable. What a game. What a game. June, this has been already. Sports, oh, they're going crazy. Sports, how good are they? So good. We are going every night now. There is just drama and cinema and theater unfolding in ways that we've never really seen before.
And I can say that without hyperbole because 29 points, again, I will mention it, the largest, largest comeback in NBA Finals history. So one of the great things about the game of basketball is is when a team goes on a run while at home in a big game. And we saw the perfect example of that yesterday. It is a game of runs.
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Chapter 3: What was the reaction to the Knicks' incredible playoff performance?
And it was fascinating to watch because, you know, generally we think of professional athletes as like these guys are, first of all, unbelievable athletes, right? They've been trained. They've been prepared for every situation by their coach. They know what's coming and they're prepared for it. They can go out there on a big stage and not be particularly nervous.
In fact, be confident, even cocky with some swagger. And you can go into a place where 20,000 people are hoping you're going to lose and they're yelling at you and all that sort of thing. And you can still go play the game. No problem, right?
You know, versus the normies like us that, you know, for example, would go to a golf course and be like, I don't want to tee off with that other group watching me. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? Please make them turn away. That makes me uncomfortable, right? But what we saw last night, in my opinion, was...
everything come crashing down in a relatively quick period of time and the san antonio spurs completely went to pieces while the new york knicks played hero and found belief and um you know turned into heroes basically. OG had nobody shot is, I mean, Mike Brown said in the postgame media availability that it's, he said it was the greatest shot in the history of New York basketball.
I think that he's got some other competition there, but considering the historic enormity of it, Considering, and this was a great bit of foreshadowing from Brown, he actually went and spoke with OG before the game. Now, this is according to Mike Brown, so I don't know how much creative liberty he took with it.
But he said, OG, with your strength and size and leaping ability, we need you to be a monster on the offensive glass tonight. And what happens in the biggest moment of the game? It's not a shot. It's not a great breakdown of a 1v1, and it's not a Hail Mary from the corner. It's a tip on an offensive rebound that allows the Knicks to somehow pull this thing out of the fire. Now, I will say this.
because we're still in the infancy of the postgame, like the game didn't end all that long ago, people are still having a hard time trying to figure out if this is the greatest comeback in NBA history or the greatest collapse in NBA history.
It might be a combination of both, but Charles Barkley on the postgame show yesterday made no bones about what he thought it was, calling it one of the stupidest performances ever. Let's let Sir Charles expand on it now. Here's Charles Barkley on what the Spurs didn't do, or I guess kind of what they did do following a historic night at Madison Square Garden.
We saw the dumbest basketball team in the history of civilization. Oh, wow. We saw they had a 25-point lead, took eight straight threes. Like, that was some of the most mismanaged, stupid basketball. When you pull a 29-point lead, the other team has to help you.
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Chapter 4: What insights does John Forslund provide about the Stanley Cup Final?
And Wemby owns his part of it, too. I mean, Wemby's missed free throws for me. I don't want to say the key play, but I think it was the symbolism of what was going on in the Spurs mentally. Yep. Everyone just froze up and started missing shots. Or made ridiculous mistakes. De'Aaron Fox. Okay, so let's go through this real quick. I mean, that's going to be...
that's going to be one of the things that maybe the thing that Spurs fans will remember about this game. 16.1 seconds left. We won't do the call. I'll do the call. Brunson misses a two pointer. Ball gets deflected into the backcourt. Fox gets there first. Mm hmm. So he gets his hands on the ball with roughly 15 seconds left.
Now he's got a clear path to the hoop, but he's also got the ability to, you know, dribble out the clock or at the very least take some of these 15 seconds off it. He decides not to. He tries to go for the points, which would put the Spurs up three. So right there, it's a problematic decision because it's still a one possession games and still gives the Knicks a chance to tie, right?
Even if you get the lay in, you're still pushing the lead from one to three. The problem compounded is that Fox doesn't make the layup. OG Ananobi, who was huge down the stretch, gets a hand on the ball, gets a block. They go the other way. And that sets up Ananobi's heroics on the offensive glass. Barkley was ripping in to De'Aaron Fox on this one as well.
He's like, you have to understand where you are in a game. Yeah. And it's not unlike what we're going to see in the World Cup coming up. When you've got a lead late, you take the ball into the corner and you try and kill as much time as possible. In Aaron Fox's situation, it's you get possession and you dribble and you dribble and you dribble and you force them to foul. And it didn't happen.
And it was another one of those instances of the Spurs. And this is where it goes to coaching. Just not being prepared for any of the moments that hit them yesterday when that got tight. Yeah. Do you know what I mean, though, where, like, humanity was kind of laid bare last night? And we're so used to seeing these professional athletes fairly composed.
You know, once in a while, you have a moment of, like, oh, the pressure got to him or something like that, right? That was... in my opinion, a whole team feeling the, and you can understand it too, feeling the weight of the situation, the NBA finals that you're in, going, uh-oh, what's going on here? Yeah, like I think they were thrown into a position. No, no, just let me finish.
But like the crowd, which they had completely quieted, in the first half, and it was dead in there. Yes. Absolutely dead. And then all of a sudden, can you imagine what it's like? You're on that court, and you are in what they would call the most famous arena in the world, and for good reason. So many things have happened at Madison Square Garden, from sports to any...
Look, the stage is immense. And then the Knicks start making a comeback and the crowd, if you've been in Madison Square Garden, there's a special type of loud that Madison Square Garden has. And then you're, wait a minute, this game is slipping away. Wait a minute. Can you imagine what you're seeing out there? You're like, wait a minute. Is that Taylor Swift? Wait a minute.
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Chapter 5: How are the Stanley Cup Final teams performing compared to expectations?
Seinfeld's going crazy. Like a chalamet. Yeah. You'd be almost like, wait, am I in a dream? Is this a nightmare? What is going on here? Right? And then, you know. What's the deal with this crowd? Yeah, right? But it is incredible to think about what was going through their heads. And on the other side, you got the Knicks. You're like, oh, my God, this is incredible. This is awesome.
And they started making everything. Yeah. I mean, their offense was cooking. So what it makes me wonder about... is where this series goes now. Because... San Antonio. I think if... I hate it when you do that, by the way. I think that... If the Knicks had lost that game and the Spurs had just kind of closed them out, right? And they had won by 15 or 20.
Yeah, it's big advantage Spurs at that point. I would have said, I was prepared. I was actually writing my prep. And I think I sent you a text. You had a tweet ready? Not a tweet, but I sent you a text. I said, the Knicks are cooked. if they lose this in the manner that they're doing, right? Yep. They're cooked because you go back to San Antonio, you know, you're probably going to lose that game.
I know the Knicks already won or two, but things had changed, right? The Spurs have probably found something. They were the favorites. They'd taken control of the series. The Knicks had their chance. They blew it. They were cooked. Now, my mind is like, wait a minute. Are the Spurs cooked? But I can't quite say yes because because I still think the Spurs have a lot of quality on the team.
Like they're a very, very good team. Now I'm leaning towards, yes, they're cooked because they're so young that I don't know how they're going to handle this. But I also think, like, there's still so much pressure on the Knicks. And if you go back to San Antonio, you get the win there from the Spurs. You got to go to game six, right? And Madison Square Garden. That's your last game at home.
And everyone will be like, this is it. We're going to win this, right? It's going to be the party in New York tonight. And sometimes that can have a negative effect. All I will say...
fascinating nba finals fascinating stanley cup finals and i have no idea what's going to happen and i kind of like it that way for the record there's only one team that has successfully overcome a 3-1 deficit in the nba finals and it was back in 2016 when the calves did it against golden state that's sort of now famous nba finals okay uh let's turn it's part of wimby's legacy then
It's the start. It's the start.
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Chapter 6: What challenges are the Carolina Hurricanes facing in the series?
This is what's going to cement him. The comeback win in game seven. Right. Oh, Adon. Get the rap horns ready. Just saying. Right. Storybook. Or looking like... Or just gets demolished in this game.
Yeah. Or they absolutely get crumpled and they just go out meekly in game one.
Honestly, the word that came to mind to describe Wemby in that final part of the game was flailing. He was one of those inflatable...
things outside of the car dealerships or whatever right he looked like that arms flailing away yeah he just like looked completely yeah he was flailing okay let's turn our attention to hockey real quick the mike babcock saga took amazingly yet another turn yesterday not long after appearing on our show
and kind of hinting at what was going on with the Babcock investigation or the looming investigation. Frank Cervelli appeared on Fan 590 Sportsnet in Toronto and gave a little bit more detail about what was going on with the investigation and where its origin story was. Let's play that audio now. Here's Frank on Fan 590 from yesterday.
Clearly, people had to have understood at this point, advisors, Babcock himself, people around the situation that, yeah, if you did something stupid before and he's done a lot of stupid things, but if you did something truly stupid and you almost got away with it never coming to light, why would you even think of coming back to the table in the manner that he's done?
Like, did he think he was going to get away with this?
I mean, you put it better than I could. I couldn't imagine, especially if I had just pocketed, you know, more than 50 million bucks from the Toronto Maple Leafs, you'd never hear from me again. Like, I might be a consultant to teams quietly. I might, you know...
be an advisor, do a podcast, do anything other than put myself in this position with this much scrutiny to work or want to work in a Canadian market again. And what it comes back to for me is pride and hubris more than anything else that's on display. So there's a few other questions. Like, let me just add to my pile of questions here. What exactly is it?
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Chapter 7: What potential trades are the Canucks considering this offseason?
Should the Oilers players be so involved in this search? It's a fair question. I mean, I guess they got to give McDavid whatever he asked for. But we've all heard about how involved the players are in the search, including speaking with Mike Babcock and then saying, okay, yeah, he's our guy. But McDavid is going to wear some of this, too, if it goes sideways.
It's a bit... I'm starting to get the Quinn Hughes vibes going. In Edmonton, the way every decision revolves around the star player on the Oilers and this notion that, God, we're desperate to keep him. We have to keep Connor McDavid. You know what they call it, Jason? They call it the player empowerment era. Oh, God. For a guy who hates that term, you sure use it a lot. Yeah.
Hour one of the podcast. But we saw how that worked for the Canucks doing everything. Who should our coach be? Who's the guy that likes Quinn and Quinn likes him? Adam Foote. Let's do that. Has he been a successful coach? It's not that important, right? One more thing. What does it say about the Oilers' room that the players think they need a coach to push them?
Is this like hiring a personal trainer where you know you won't go to the gym unless there's someone to hold you accountable? No. I sometimes wonder if McDavid likes his teammates or trusts his teammates, because if this leadership core thinks that they need someone to push them, you know, is that McDavid going, is he, is he the guy that hired the personal trainer? He's like, I won't back check.
If you know, nobody tells me to back check. Right. I know that about myself in which case, I guess that's admirable. Right. But I wonder if, If McDavid is tired of yelling at the players himself, so he's bringing in a professional disciplinarian. Right now! Right now! Right now!
I don't know what's happened so many times!
That's not good enough. That's not finals. So there's something about that clip that stands out now when he says it happened so many times.
And also half of it's bleeped.
Yeah. And also McDavid sounds like he's about to cry. He did sound like he was going to cry. He did sound like he was wavering. I've watched it a few times. Please take it. Yeah. It wasn't like a dig in, boys. It was like a dig in, boys. I got enough. You know? There was like... Yeah. If anyone's watched that clip, it's like a pilot who knows the plane's going down kind of voice.
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Chapter 8: What are the implications of Jake DeBrusk's contract situation?
Daryl Sutter. Yeah, right. There's certain guys. That's the kind of person that you're looking for. And, you know, I go back to, well, how much say should players have in this? And it's a very good point because the moment that you start ceding some of this power to the players, you've kind of ceded all of it. Here's the thing.
If you let them hire the head coach, guess what else you're letting them do? Decide when it's time to fire them. You've basically ceded all that power to the players right now. Because you can't say, well, you know, I'm making the call on when we get rid of Mike if you keep him around. The players are going to tell you when that happens as well.
Jim should be like, maybe the players don't know what they're doing. At the same time, you do have to give these guys everything you can. If you're desperate enough to keep them around. I think the alternative to this would be, tell us right now what you want to do long term. And if you're not going to stay here long term without every sweetener in the book, then maybe it is time to move on.
Maybe, maybe this isn't, we're going to keep you here for forever. You know, and the Canucks waited way too long to do that with Hughes, even though they knew the answer. That's the problem is, is that you just get, the owner has to do that. The owner has to do that. It has to come from ownership because the GM went, you know what? We're going to trade STEM. We're going to trade McDavid today.
The owner would be like, ah, you're fired. Okay, so we've talked about the NBA. We talked about the Oilers' dysfunctionality. We haven't mentioned that the Stanley Cup final continues tonight in Carolina. The series is tied 2-2. So we'll talk next with John Forslund about this terrific Stanley Cup final between Carolina and Vegas. You're listening to the Halford & Brough Show on Sportsnet 650.
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