We'll get back to your football calls in a second, but we need to have an open and honest conversation about something that happened last night in New York sports.

Because it's one of those scenarios where if the person running the New York Knicks's name wasn't Mike Brown, but his name was, let's call him, Tom Thibodeau.

The lead story in every newspaper, the lead story on this radio station, would have been how Tom Fibodeau did something so awful and so scandalous and so reprehensible that he need to be fired on the spot.

Because last night, the New York Knicks, and look, they got their ass kicked by the Orlando Magic. It happens. It's not that big of a deal. It's basketball. It's basketball. And we can get into all the howls and the whys. But bottom line is they got their ass kicked, even though Paulo Bencaro got hurt and left in the first quarter. But down by 16 with a minute 54 to go, Jalen

Brunson was still in the game.

He drove to the basket, and it appears like he has sprained the same ankle he sprained last year when he missed 15 games.

Again, with a minute 54 to go and the next down by 16.

If Tom...

If Tom Fibito was the head coach, there'd be picket signs all around New York City.

I missed this game last night. How many minutes did he play?

I would get... I'll look at the box score, but I would guess like 36, 37.

He actually sat McEl Bridges in the fourth quarter looking for a spark. So Mike Brown was trying all sorts of different things last night. If you're going to sit bridges and you've got to play one of your stars and the big best closer in the NBA that we talked about all last season is Jalen Brunson. So what else? I mean, you have to keep one of those guys out there just in case. But, but Tiki, at what point do you say the game is over? Let's white flag it. In fact, when Brunson got hurt and ended up taking his free throws, that was the white flag moment when he brought in Tyler Colenick and he brought in the rest of his bench and did the white flag lineup. But you're down by 16 with a minute and a half to go.

Now, I haven't given an opinion yet.

I'm just putting all the facts out there because we all have to at least admit.

Just admit this before we dive into it.

Right.

That if this was Tom Fibodow, there'd be a trial.

I think with Tom Fibito, it was always about the minutes.

It was about the grind. It was about

you can't play these guys 46 minutes every night and expect them not to get hurt. It's just

it's attrition. It just it wears on you. And it's not, that's not what was happening last

night. January 27th, 2004.

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