Hey, part of my take listeners, you can find every episode on Apple podcasts and Spotify. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. On today's part of my take presented by Draft Kings, it is the Great Week finale. We are back in studio for the first 10 minutes of the show. Then we're back on the bus and we have Coach O prior to him being announced to being back at LSU, but still a great interview. It was literally like 24 hours before all was right in the world. Looking back on, we did talk about a lot of things as if he was still working at LSU. Yeah, and we had an idea that it might happen. We had an inkling, but we couldn't actually talk about any of it, so but awesome interview, always great to talk to Coach O. And then we also have Saints Head Coach, Kellen Moore, we're at the Saints facility on Wednesday. You'll hear us recap everything. One of the best moments that we've ever had in an interview. I think, yeah, we have a great week history on this episode. Yep, great week history. We're going to talk some playoffs. We got FireFest, a great finale to a great, great week. It's all brought to you by our friends at Chevy. It's great week. This is the part of the football calendar where nobody's watching, but everything gets built early mornings, pads back on conditioning, film reps, spring training and football is all about putting in the work with nobody's cheering yet. Check out the current offers and build your Silverado at Chevy.com. We had the Chevy Silverado the grit week Chevy Silverado with us all week. It was awesome. Taylor it was actually when we're in Vanny Woodhead all week felt safe knowing that there was a Chevy Silverado trailing us the entire time in case Benny Woodhead decided to just stop working. So thank you to Chevy, our wonderful

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check out your current offers and build your Silverado at Chevy.com. Okay, let's go. Buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-b Yeah, Welcome to part of my tape presented by draft Kings the crown is yours today is fria May 22nd and the New York Knicks are up to oh Congrats memes congrats Zach. We are in studio for the first 10 minutes of this show then we were back The rest of the show will be back on the bus, back at the Saints facility. So we just were back in Chicago. We watched the games. We're going to give you a little playoff talk before we get to everything else with great week finale. But memes, Zach, 2-0, we all said you guys were going to win this game. We all said the series was going to be over after the after the first game and what happened with the calves. How we feeling boys? Uh, I feel great. The that's nine, nine in a row now. What the next day tonight is the is the formula to just win every game. Oh, catch showed up. Josh Hart finally showed up. I need. Okay. Yet. Yes. I would agree with you, the formula, but Josh Hart scoring 26 points and being like everywhere. That's probably not. Well, but if you're in for that point, it just starts for 26 points and you don't win, we got a fucking problem. McHale bridges like, you know, scoring 19 points, shooting a very efficient night. Yeah, I'd agree, you know what, memes? I'm going to agree. That is the formula. All your, all your guys who can't usually score being really good scores. To Mikael Skrett, he's been doing it since he cried game three. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. But he was super efficient tonight. Yeah. He's been so good. Cat showed up tonight. So this is the formula. This is the formula. Okay. All right. Formula locked in. Wait, is the formula also to have the calves like three sharp shooters miss every open three? And I'm not saying this is like, I think the next you're going to win this series. I said it before the series. I said it was especially after game one. But that was the, that was what decided this game more than anything to me was the fact that the calves couldn't hit an open three. Like Sam Merrill, Max Truce, and Wade, I think they went a combined two for 14. Shush. Yes, Sam Merrill missed like every single wide open three. Yeah, there was a lot, where's like, how do you, how do you miss that? Again, not saying the nicks aren't the better team

because they are, but the calves, like,

you have to look at that game

if your calves are in bed, like, dude,

could, if these guys hit four more threes, still lose, but it would've been a tight game at the end. 9 for 32 is not gonna do it. It's not gonna do it on the road. I still think that the next are probably going to win in five.

Nine for 35.

Nine for 35.

Yes.

From three.

They're probably going to win in five.

They could even pull off the sweep.

I guess they only real question we have for you because we already we declared that the New York Nix have won the series after game one. Correct. Um, who would you rather play in the finals? Uh, I would like to see that series goes spurs in seven. Okay. And then best case scenario in this series. I mean, if we are if we're able to pull it off four games, get good rest and then we go win B, we go at the spurs.

Get some more rest

We don't want too much rest. I was worried about too much rest last time. It seems to be working out now They did shake it. No, no didn't the first three quarters. They're very bad. They shook it off in the fourth last game. Yeah So I was actually, it's funny because we talked after the last game on part of my take and we kind of gave our analysis of

Just James Harden getting cooked just like a human barbecue of James Harden and the stats just keep coming out and they just keep getting worse For how historically bad that defensive performance by James Harden was and it was as much as it was James Harden It was also the coaching oh yeah, and do anything about it. Some point. Not only that. Get him out or be like, Hey, here's a time out. Guys, stop letting them

stop, stop switching, J. Letting James Harden or Jalen Brunson switched to James Harden on basically nothing. It wasn't even screens. They were just like, Hey, Jalen Brunson's is gonna walk over here. So now James Harden has.

Yeah, it was outrageous. And the fact that it kept happening

over and over and over again. And how many points he gave,

he was giving up like basically two points per possession.

Yeah, it was it was outrageous and the fact that it kept happening over and over and over again and how many points he gave He was giving up like basically two points per possession. Yeah, which is crazy And you could make the argument that like a dead body would have given up fewer points than James Harden because like Then at least the guys on defense would know that they'd have to play four on five or they would just help out you Yuck, yeah, I'm staying away from that. I don't want to drive on a dead body Ew, but the way that it played out it was almost like the calves They were just like okay, James is gonna get cooked that that's his problem. Memes is not our problem I will say that uh the if you talk about the blueprint and the next the way they played tonight The one the one thing you could say like that they still have a level to go up is it wasn't a jail in Brunson hero night. Like he did the hero night in game one. He wasn't his absolute, I mean, he still controls the game. It's more like scoring 19 points for jail in Brunson. You just you've we've come to expect jail in Brunson to drop 30 every playoff game almost, you know, and so the MSG crowds electric. It's awesome watching playoff games there. I, you know, we're having a great New York debate already.

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