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Chapter 1: What did Colin Cowherd say about the Knicks' championship win?
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Chapter 2: How did Jalen Brunson influence the Knicks' mentality?
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Find your local station for the Herd at foxsportsradio.com or stream us live every day on the iHeartRadio app by searching Fox Sports Radio or FSR. This is the Best of the Herd with Colin Cowherd on Fox Sports Radio. Here we go. It is a Monday World Cup underway. The United States men's national team. Get to that in a second. Are they just going to breeze through their group?
It's the herd wherever you may be, however you may be listening. Thanks for making us part of your day. One hour from now, Colin Wright, Colin Wrong, plenty of both. So let's let's wrap a bow. around the NBA season and what the New York Knicks did, and I think one of the reasons, they were a pretty likable team, and the ratings were so big. They weren't your classic, we're going to go buy stars.
Virtually every move the New York Knicks made to build this team was questioned. I mean, obviously, they fired Tibbs. People weren't sure about that.
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Chapter 3: What were Colin's thoughts on Team USA's World Cup performance?
Go back and look at the columns. The Carl Anthony Towns trade, well, they had to give up Dante DiVincenzo. That didn't go over well. Jalen Brunson free agency, most people thought, why? Overpaid. Mikael Bridges, Remember they gave away five first-round picks? I mean, I remember saying I like it, but that is a haul for Mikael Bridges.
I mean, OG, people liked it, but he'd been banged up in Toronto. You weren't quite sure... And you put this team together and everything had been questioned. And so even though you had like, you know, Cat was a former lottery pick and Bridges was a top 10 pick. It was mostly doubted, eye-rolled,
People, moves, trades, even the head coach Mike Brown, nobody liked it, and it created an underdog mentality. So the never give up Knicks is not just a slogan. It really is their reality. A lot of the guys that were doubted on this roster. Now, did they get some breaks? Yeah, they played three teams in the playoffs coming out of a grueling seven-game series. They stayed away from injuries.
They remained very, very healthy. They gained some momentum in the atrocious Eastern Conference. And it should be noted, San Antonio, as I said before the series, was a better matchup for the Knicks than OKC. OKC had been to a championship final. OKC had more depth, more experience. All that youth really came unraveled, especially in fourth quarters in this series.
But another thing I really liked about the Knicks is this championship and this team was about culture. Not a boring, analytic-led, repetitive, three-point shooting contest. This was about grit, and it was about hard work and culture and the Villanova guys. I mean, the NBA regular season becomes so formulaic and so repetitive.
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Chapter 4: What insights did Brian Scalabrine share about Jalen Brunson?
I mean, the Celtics a few years ago got to the finals, and the ratings weren't necessarily that great. the year they won the championship. It's just the same offense, follow the leader, small ball, three-point shooting. The Knicks are not that. The Knicks are their own team. They're led by a small guy, not a center, not a wing, an undersized guy. We thought they had defensive liabilities.
And instead, I mean, they were the number one defensive team in the entire playoffs. Is that crazy? Better than Oklahoma City, better than Detroit, better than San Antonio. We looked at the Knicks and we're like, I said this all year, like if Cat and Brunson are on the floor at the same time, you're like, yeah, I don't know. Also, this team pivoted multiple times.
They came into the playoffs very Jalen Brunson dependent. And then they pivoted early in the Atlanta series to having Cat initiate more offense. And then the Spurs sort of figured that out. And then they went back in the last two games of the series late to being Jalen Brunson dependent. So offensively, defensively, they made all sorts of adjustments. Coaching adjustment in the offseason.
There were chemistry issues. There were reports late in the regular season like defense and chemistry and the rotation and... All of it vanished. So I just like the humility. I like the hard work. I like a group of guys. I mean, even Brunson and his dad. Easy to wrap your arms around that. Here's Jalen Brunson, the MVP on winning the title.
Eleven players in NBA history have a 45-point game in the NBA Finals, and you're one of them. What did it take to get that done tonight?
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Chapter 5: Why was Colin wrong about Team USA's chances in the World Cup?
I was just trying to go out there and just will us to win. I wasn't focused on anything else besides trying to win the game. Getting stops, getting out and running, just figuring out how to cut that lead or gain it when we got it. Really exciting moment knowing that we won't give up.
You know, the reality of being a columnist or a talk show host is you have a show the next day or a column the next day. But it is interesting, those Knicks moves, all of them, by at least some of us, were panned. Like, I didn't like the Tibbs move. I'm like, he just got to the conference finals. What are you doing? Mike Brown's been fired multiple times. Mike Brown wasn't the first choice.
I did like the Mikael Bridges move, but five first-round picks is a ton. Jalen Brunson, nobody thought he would be this. other than his dad, Dante DiVincenzo. They lost him. I remember when Hartenstein left to OKC. I remember being on the air and saying, oh man, that's a big loss. That is gutting. So doubted the entire time. They were only a third seed in the East.
So not all championships look the same. Good for the Knicks. All right, let's talk the United States men's national team. By now, you know we won, but it isn't that we won. We said Friday on the show, we think we'll win. It was how we won. That was the smoothest first half, the slickest, the best aesthetic, the most creative. I mean, until Friday, I always thought we labored to score goals.
Even when we won, right, we wouldn't get that many great looks. Certainly in open play.
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Chapter 6: What adjustments did the Knicks make in the playoffs?
Highly dependent on counterattacking and set pieces and corner kicks. But the ability to dominate possession, get great looks. You know, I always felt when I watched soccer, United States, we had some athletes, but we were sort of wooden. Really, we were a little rigid, and we'd get opportunities, and we wouldn't take advantage of them.
And Paraguay, by the way, beat Argentina and Brazil in qualifying, so they're more than capable. Not a dynamic offense, but more than capable. But great athletes, here's what they have in common. You can go to Mike Trout in his prime, Mookie Betts, MJ, Dirk Nowitzki scoring. Great athletes make mistakes. Plays look easy. It's like, man, and that's practice and repetition and skill.
And you can also tell from our attacking style that our coach believes in us. For years and years, everybody wanted to blame Klinsman, Berhalter. The truth is our coaches did not employ an attacking style because we couldn't. We'd get burned. We had to play counterattack, conservative, rock fight, win one-nothing, set up pieces. That's not what this team is.
Fowler and Balligan is a remarkable striker. And then you have Pulisic splitting the defense, has always been really playmaker and goal scorer, but primarily a great point guard who needs... a guy that he can set up and depend on. Balogun had two goals. We haven't had a multiple World Cup goal score since 1930. So if you thought to yourself watching this, man, it looks smooth.
It looked different. You are right. We didn't look this creative. We weren't filled with this many playmakers. I know you said and felt and talked with friends, man, that first half, that's as good as we've looked. Your eyes aren't fooling you. Galligan was a very good youth player, a striker, a goal scorer, and he chose us over England because he would have probably been their second or third.
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Chapter 7: How did the Knicks' underdog mentality contribute to their success?
He is our one. And, I mean, I just thought it was a thing of beauty. It's not that we won. It looked, had you taken our jerseys off and put on Argentina or Spain, you would have said, oh, that's what they look like, overwhelming Paraguay. That's what Germany has looked like through the years. That's what England will look like in some of their matches.
That's what Argentina has looked like, where you're like, oh, dominating possession. Man, when they get opportunities, they nail them. Do you realize Pulisic? How many shots did Pulisic have in that? Zero. Pulisic had zero shots on goal. We had four goals. That tells you the depth of talent.
depth of town election laws ballistic after i think that's the greatest half of group play from the men's team at a world cup in history everything went right total dominance from top to bottom
It's fun to look around and know that there's different guys that can pull off these different skills and moves and things going on. It's great. It's great. But more than just that, I feel like there's such a good connection between us right now.
I really like the way, even Balogun, I mean, everyone will look at the goals, but the way he's fighting against these center backs, holding up the ball, getting fouls, you know, Serge, all these guys, Malik had a really good performance as well. So they all deserve a lot of credit.
You know, they call it the beautiful game, but be really honest. Ours wasn't that beautiful. It wasn't. We won by rock fight. Counterattack. You know, won nothing. Cross your fingers. We said that Friday. That was the beautiful game.
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Chapter 8: What does Colin think about the future of the Knicks and their roster?
That's what it looks like. passing the fluidity the open play opportunities seized it's what i said in an essay about a week ago like i think we can seize this world cup doesn't mean we necessarily win it but we take advantage of opportunities u.s soil and that's what it looks like jay mac that was fun we were texting during that thing that was about as good well it was the best half
of soccer by the United States men's national team ever. Not just offensively, just fluidity, the way it looked, it was absolutely beautiful. Yeah, the scenes in the stadium, Colin, were unbelievable. I mean, just an absolutely electric performance. I've never heard SoFi that loud for sports on that second Balligan goal. It was just like, holy cow. Once you put three on the board and a half...
It wasn't like, oh, maybe we can hold them off. It's like, oh, damn, we got a squad. We might make a run here. Colin, I'm already looking at tickets for the round of 32. I will let you know because we're winning the group, by the way, on Friday against Australia. That's a lock. We're winning that game. Hey, quarterfinals are bust. We look like a legitimately awesome contender.
And it's also, I noticed this against Germany. So let's say, let's talk boxing. So, you know, when Mike Tyson's in his prime is that you had to be very careful, even if you thought you had a length advantage and an experienced advantage, you know, Larry Hall and old Larry Holmes fought him and stayed at bay for rounds and rounds. And then Larry got greedy and Tyson knocked him out.
Like you paid respect to Mike by your style against Mike is that you always just, you had to kind of, even if you had late length advantages, you always sort of, kept yourself at bay a little bit, attacked, moved away from Mike, or if you did, you clenched him, you got really close because you knew of his power. Watch Germany when we tied it against Germany and you go back.
They're not as aggressive against us. And that is the advantage of the respect being paid when you are gifted, You can't cheat. You can't be overly aggressive. When we would play before this World Cup, when we would play a Netherlands or a Brazil, a Spain, when we would play them, why weren't we super aggressive? That's respect that they have better talent. They have better personnel.
And that's what the great players do. It's not just that you play them. It's how you play them. How do you formulate your game plan? You can watch our dominant time of possession, not only against Paraguay, but but also the corner kick advantage and the time of possession advantage against Germany.
And countries now watch them play us a little bit differently, not as aggressively because they know in open space, we can burn them. We have that skill level. I mean, Dest was unbelievable. Pulisic was unstoppable. Colin, did you hear the comments the Paraguay coach made about Pochettino? He was like, dude, we got embarrassed. Pochettino watched their earlier meeting.
I think they met in November. and adjusted everything, and Paraguay was just caught flat-footed. They had no answers, Colin. It was just relentless from our offense. And like you said, we've never seen that before from a USA team. Be sure to catch live editions of The Herd weekdays at noon Eastern, 9 a.m. Pacific on Fox Sports Radio, FS1, and the iHeartRadio app. Stugatz here.
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