Pardon My Take
Finals Preview, NBA With Ryen Russillo, SCF With Keith Yandle, Thibs Fired Plus Listener FAQ’s
Wed, 4 Jun 2025
The Knicks move on from Thibs and it may be Jay Wright time (00:00:00-00:15:43). We talk about our favorite bets for NBA Finals Game 1 (00:15:43-00:16:19). CJ Stroud isn’t throwing at OTA’s and we gauge the level of concern (00:16:19-00:23:18). Hot Seat Chill Throne including major drama in the Chess World and Max caught a hot dog (00:23:18-00:48:45). Ryen Russillo joins to talk NBA Finals, Knicks firing Thibs, NBA Finals ratings, SGA and more (00:48:45-01:44:32). Keith Yandle joins the show to talk SCF, who has the advantage, being teammates with Jagr and Biz getting gout (01:44:32-02:14:02). We finish the show with listener submitted FAQ’s and lottery ball machine (02:14:02-02:31:41).You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/pardon-my-take
Chapter 1: Why was Tom Thibodeau fired from the Knicks?
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On today's part in my take, it is finals preview day. We have our good friend Ryan Rassilon to talk about the NBA finals, getting you ready for Thursday night, and our good friend Keith Yandel talking about the Stanley Cup final, getting ready for tonight. So we're ready to go with both finals. We're going to do some hot seat, cool throne. We have listener-submitted FAQs.
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Chapter 2: What are the predictions for the NBA Finals?
Chapter 3: What are the concerns around C.J. Stroud's arm?
Max, he doesn't want to coach.
He doesn't want to coach? He doesn't want to coach. Why not? He's retired. He's retired from coaching. I don't know how many times the guy has to say he's retired from coaching. Oh, man.
People never change their mind. I want it so bad now. He's not. I just watched the Brett Favre documentary the other day. People change their mind. Yeah. And people are scumbags. Not Jay Wright. No. Yeah. Oh, you know who would be a good fit, too, if we're just going to toss names out there. Mm-hmm.
patino oh doesn't have to move rick patino doesn't have to move patino patino patino it is it might be a lesson from tibbs that maybe flying too close to the sun can be a bad thing yeah like they uh they accomplished a lot this season right it was a great season we established that on pmt that this season was not a disappointment for the knicks nope but then you get that far and then people start asking questions is this the guy that can even get us farther
Yeah. Tibbs is also – he's kind of like a Harbaugh. He's a long-lost Harbaugh brother where he's just so obsessed with the sporty coaches and really more Jim, not John because John's been there for – or sorry. Yeah, John's been there forever with the Ravens. But remember when like the 49ers and Jim Harbaugh split up? It was just like this guy's a really good coach. What's happening?
It's like sometimes you just run out of gas here. This happened to Tibbs in Chicago. Yeah. Minnesota, and now New York. Minnesota a little different, although people are making the joke that Cat has gotten him fired twice. Very mean joke.
Yeah, very mean.
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Chapter 4: What drama unfolded in the Chess World?
But yeah, maybe it's run its course kind of firing because Tom Thibodeau is a basketball mastermind. He is pushing his guys very hard. He's so addicted to the game, he was engaged to be married and broke it up six weeks before the marriage when he was like 24 and said, nah, honey. It's basketball. And then he's never been engaged since.
Yeah. So, I mean, this is what Tibbs does. He will play starters. He will play them long minutes. He'll exhaust them. And then he'll make people that are watching the game second guess every small move that he makes because he very rarely does make these little tinkers to his lineup. So when he does do something, then everyone's like, he's making the wrong choice.
Yeah.
and then you have to blow it up.
Uses his challenge too early. I mean, we've said it a million times, but if you're a coach of a professional team, you just can't mess up the small things because idiots like us sitting on the couch, we can't tell you, oh, well, they should have run a different set in this situation, but we can tell you, hey... Dumb challenge, dude. How do you not have a timeout here?
Yeah, we're really good at watching sports on TV, which is something that you never do. You don't watch your own games on TV as a coach. You watch the film afterwards, but you miss a lot of the stuff that we see. He's a great coach. I don't know if he's going to coach next season. He might just be an analyst. He might be on TV somewhere. TM on TV would be great. Might have him doing a podcast.
I don't know, but this does feel like a move that the Knicks would make knowing that they've got a guy that they want.
Yeah, can I throw out something for Tibbs? Maybe a trip to Turkey. Maybe coaching Turkey. Maybe a coaching Turkey, trip to Turkey, get the new hair, come back a different guy. Is he going bald? Just a little. I think it's one of those situations that if they catch it now, it won't get bad. Nobody will ever know that he was balding.
If he waits five years, it might be a situation where he does actually get bald.
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Chapter 6: What insights does Ryen Russillo provide about the NBA?
Every time I don't want to coach anymore. Question, question. Has it ever happened for a job where, what, three, four of his, three of his players are flourishing in the professional league and also for a job that he has said on a certain little podcast named Pardon My Take, that if he had to pick any job in the NBA, it would be the New York Knicks.
You forced him to say that. We didn't force him to say it. Yes, you did. No, we didn't.
Wait, is he not a grown man? Play the clip. Play the clip. Play the clip.
Put the clip in this podcast, Max.
Pull up the clip. He's smashing these.
We didn't even do gun to his head.
No. We didn't at all. We didn't even have guns at that time in our career. It was in New York. I actually did have a gun at that time.
You did have a gun. I had an illegal gun in New York City. I forgot about your gun. Yeah. Okay. This is us with Jay Wright. What NBA team would you like to coach? Kind of kidding. The Knicks. Okay. Jay Wright to the Knicks. Passing square guard. He just said that he pulled that one out himself.
Mm-hmm.
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Chapter 7: What are the highlights of the Stanley Cup Finals?
Chapter 8: What listener FAQs were addressed?
Not worried. Yeah. Saying not worried repeatedly.
And he said, there's no concerns with CJ. No concerns on my end there.
Let me ask you this, Big Cat. If you were to redraft that NFL draft right now, are you taking Bryce first overall, knowing that he's dealing with general soreness? Is Bryce Young throwing in OTAs? I think so. Okay. You could call it throw. Whatever he does. Yeah. Yeah, he's doing that.
Okay. Start the debate. Oh, wait. Redraft. We got OTA footage showing big refills. Can I say something about the everything app? It's all happening on X? Yeah, because free speech is back. The search function is dog shit. It's pretty bad. Oh, my God. I'll look for something and it will just be a completely different thing from years ago.
Yeah. You can look for something. You know exactly what it is. Yes. And type it in and it still won't appear.
I can look for something on there and it will be like a highlight, like a sports highlight. And then in the third option for what comes up, it's just a Nazi.
It's crazy. Or someone like a Russian soldier getting hit by a drone.
Yeah. Did you see those drones, by the way? Yes.
I saw those drones.
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