The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Are the Knicks Actually Better? Plus, Haliburton’s Likability, OKC’s Dominant Game 2, and the Warriors' Chances Without Steph With Jorge Sedano
08 May 2025
Russillo starts the show with his thoughts on the Knicks stealing Games 1 and 2 (1:38). Then, he’s joined by Jorge Sedano to discuss what MSG will be like for Game 3, why Tyrese Haliburton may rub some players the wrong way, and what OKC did Wednesday night to regain control (15:47). Plus, Life Advice and Pope Watch with Kyle (57:33)! Does my hole in one count? Check us out on YouTube for exclusive clips, livestreams, and more at https://www.youtube.com/@RyenRussilloPodcast. The Ringer is committed to responsible gaming. Please visit www.rg-help.com to learn more about the resources and helplines available. Host: Ryen Russillo Guest: Jorge Sedano Producers: Steve Ceruti, Kyle Crichton, Mike Wargon, and Jonathan Frias Get anything delivered on Uber Eats. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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The Knicks did it. They really did it. They're up 2-0 in this series, and everybody is pissed off about Boston. We'll discuss what that means and where this team is at down 0-2 in the series. We'll do that with Sedona. We'll also talk about OKC's huge night against Denver. Not as long as we talk about the Knicks in Boston, though.
But he's going to talk, Sedano, on his experience with the Thunder over the last couple of years, building towards this moment, how they look now compared to everybody else and how the playoffs are shaking out. Breakdown on the Pacers and the Cavs in that ridiculous game, too, and Halliburton's status in the game. And then we'll cover Minnesota and Golden State.
So we'll do all the playoffs with him. Obviously, I'll spend a good chunk of the Open on Knicks and the Celtics. And we've got life advice. If you can't stand Boston, I get it. If you want to say that Good Will Hunting is just a schmaltzy therapy movie, I would push back on that a little bit, but I could see you come to that conclusion.
If you want to question the early settlers, the first settlers that came over in the Mayflower that survived that trip, if you want to question their decision-making by deciding on Plymouth until... Time after that, some guys walked north, just up, I guess, and said, hey, Boston has a river. There's much more access. The harbor is deeper. This probably would be a much better settlement.
And there's a lot of people in Plymouth who are like, yeah, we have eels, though, and we got to move our stuff, dude. Like, I don't want to go up there. If you want to question their decision making, you know, I can't tell you that you're wrong.
If you hate watching the Celtics play, like you guys are just going to shoot threes and you look scared at home and you're supposed to be the better basketball team. If you think that Tatum not playing for Team USA and Kirk keeping on the bench helped a nation heal. If you want to audit the 24 title, like I understand all of those things because the Celtics did it again.
They blew another 20 point lead. at home in the playoffs. When the road team wins the first two games of a series, they win the series 86% of the time. And we're going to see if the Knicks can pull off something that I thought would be impossible. So we know that the Celtics missed 45 threes in game one, an NBA record missed threes.
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