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First Take

Hour 1: Gotta Have It?

First Take

ESPN Radio

Sports

4.25.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Hour 1: First Take is back with more NBA Playoff Talk! Stephen A. Smith, Shannon Sharpe and Marcus Morris discuss the Pistons big Game 2 win over the Knicks to tie the series 1-1. Plus, do the Lakers need to win Game 2 against Minnesota tonight to stay in the series? All that and more on First Take! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Good morning. Welcome into first take. I'm Molly Karam. So much to get into. Obviously, the NBA playoffs and the NFL draft is in just two days. Let's bring my guys in. Of course, we got Stephen A. Smith, Marcus Morris and Shannon Sharp. Gentlemen, good morning. How are we doing? Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. All right. Good morning. All right. Let's roll, guys. So the Knicks, we're down six at the half behind in the

0:55.3

free throw statistics. The Pistons wound up shooting 34 free throws Monday night in their

0:59.7

19th century over the Knicks, who took 19 in game two. The series is even. And next coach, Tom

1:05.4

Tibbeto said afterward the free throws need to be as well. Tibbs, talk to me. You know, obviously, huge discrepancy in free throws need to be as well. Tips, talk to me.

1:15.1

You know, obviously, huge discrepancy in free throws.

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Huge.

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Huge.

1:17.8

I got to take a look at that.

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Right.

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So, you know, I don't understand, you know, how on one side, you know, you talk about direct line drives.

1:26.7

The guy's getting fouled and it's not being called right so

1:29.9

and look I really don't give a crap how they call the game as long as it's consistent on both sides

1:35.1

so if Cunningham's driving and there's marginal contact and he's getting to the line then Jalen deserves to be

1:41.1

getting to the line it's really that simple all. All right, Tibbs looking for consistency.

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