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The Michael Kay Show

Hour 2: Fred Katz

The Michael Kay Show

ESPN

Sports

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The Athletic's Fred Katz says Karl-Anthony Towns is a great matchup against the Hawks because they don't have a conventional center. Has the road to the Finals opened up for the Knicks? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:24.0

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0:25.6

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0:31.2

The Knicks and the Hawks, game five tonight.

0:34.0

The Knicks won a big game in game four to even a series at two apiece.

0:39.9

And we'll talk about this as we go along, but the trip to the finals is kind of opening up in front of you.

0:46.2

Detroit's down three games to one. Cleveland's tied with Toronto 2-2. The Celtics will be there,

0:52.6

but maybe the Celtics don't shoot great threes if the Knicks play them, and the Knicks could move on. But again, we're getting ahead of ourselves because the Knicks still have to beat the Hawks, and now we bring in a good friend of the show, Fred Katz, who does such a great job covering the NBA for the athletic, and he joins us now. Fred, how you doing? I'm doing great, Michael. How about you? Doing well as well.

1:13.4

So one of the keys for game four, in my opinion, you wrote about it today as well, was the

1:20.5

Knicks ran a lot of their offense through Carl Anthony Towns. So it was a smart adjustment by

1:25.3

Mike Brown and his staff. What's Quinn Snyder going to do to take that away tonight?

1:32.8

You know, I think there are a few different things that he could potentially try.

1:37.2

I think he could switch up defenders on him a little bit more.

1:40.6

Jonathan Cominga has had some success on towns.

1:43.8

I think they could try some different

1:45.1

coverages on the different screen actions they ran with Towns. That is something for sure.

1:53.0

Ultimately, this is a really good matchup for Towns. As difficult of a matchup as it is for Brunson,

2:00.3

it is a really good matchup for

2:03.5

towns.

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