Pardon My Take
NBA With Kirk Goldsberry, The Knicks Stun The Celtics With Special Guest Jerry O'Connell, Pacers With Another Thrilling Comeback, Hockey Playoffs And Listener Submitted FAQ's
Wed, 7 May 2025
Tyrese Big Balls Haliburton and the Pacers do it again, stunning the Cavs in Game 2 with another late comeback(00:00:00-00:13:27). The Warriors without Steph take Game 1 and every series is on crack(00:13:27-00:18:44). We talk some hockey after the Caps lose game 1 and Islanders lottery luck(00:18:44-00:29:37). Back in studio we recap a wild Monday night including Knicks/Celtics with Jerry O'Connell and Nuggets insane comeback in OKC(00:29:37-01:16:38). Hot Seat/Cool Throne including Justin Tucker getting cut and Big Cat passed his kidney stone after the Bet Gala(01:16:38-01:40:14). Kirk Goldsberry joins the show to talk hoops, Jokic's greatness, working for Pop, who he thinks will win the NBA Title and more(01:40:14-02:20:45). We finish with listener submitted FAQ's(02:20:45-02:36:26)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: How did the Pacers pull off another thrilling comeback?
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On today's part of my take, we have our good friend Kirk Goldsberry on to talk NBA. Incredible, incredible last two days of NBA action in the playoffs. We're going to talk some playoff hockey. We also have a very special guest, Jerry O'Connell, who surprises Hank during the Celtics-Knicks talk. And we recap Bet Gala and the day with Jerry O'Connell. We're going to do Hot Seat Cool Throne.
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Chapter 2: What happened in the Knicks vs. Celtics game?
Chapter 3: Why are the Warriors thriving without Steph Curry?
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They're up 2-0 on the Cavs. PFT, the last two days of, it's May Madness. I feel bad for John Rothstein because he's been sleeping this entire month. It's been insane. And we thought we couldn't top it for Monday night, which we're going to get to when we're back in studio. And then tonight happens where the Pacers are down 23. six minutes into the third quarter. They're down seven under a minute.
That's the second time in three games they've come back down seven and under a minute to win a game.
And not only that, but it's the second time that Halliburton's done it in the in the final two seconds of a postseason game. So that means I was reading about this earlier. It said that LeBron James is the only other player since 1997, 98. That's when they started keeping track of play by play. That is multiple go ahead field goals in the final two seconds in a single postseason. Pretty insane.
Absolutely nuts ending. In terms of boxing out on free throws, I feel like that's one thing that the Cavs need to work on a little bit. One of them, I'll give you one of them with DeSmith when he came in with that dunk. Awesome. It was an awesome dunk. He was definitely like inside the three-point arc, but who cares? It happens on every shot. You got to learn how to box out. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, listen, a Tony Brothers ref game, you can't expect anything to make sense whatsoever. I know people were complaining about that, Cavs fans. Listen. The Cavs should have won that game, and the Pacers prove again that you have to beat them for all 48 minutes.
I honestly think with the way they play pace-wise, with the way Rick Carlisle basically plays every single guy on their team, he'll just be like... Ben Shepard, your time, you get a few minutes here. That doesn't happen in the playoffs. You don't play – let me look up how many guys played for the Pacers tonight. You don't play the amount of guys that he plays. He played 11 guys tonight.
That's pretty crazy for an NBA playoff game. And so the Pacers, with the pace they play, the conditioning they have, I really think that it's like they are built for this type of situation where it's like you've seen it two times in the last three games where they're just going to keep going at you and they're not going to give up. And Kenny Atkinson even admitted it.
He was like, we ran out of gas, which I don't understand that either because the Cavs didn't have a guy over 40 minutes. But it's all credits to the Pacers. I know that the Cavs fans can say, oh, we missed this call, this call, that call. The Pacers are just – they have alligator blood. They do not die. And they have a belief in Tyrese Halliburton.
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Chapter 4: What insights does Kirk Goldsberry provide on NBA playoffs?
Chapter 5: How did Jerry O'Connell impact the episode?
Chapter 6: What are the key takeaways from the hockey playoffs?
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, listen, a Tony Brothers ref game, you can't expect anything to make sense whatsoever. I know people were complaining about that, Cavs fans. Listen. The Cavs should have won that game, and the Pacers prove again that you have to beat them for all 48 minutes.
I honestly think with the way they play pace-wise, with the way Rick Carlisle basically plays every single guy on their team, he'll just be like... Ben Shepard, your time, you get a few minutes here. That doesn't happen in the playoffs. You don't play – let me look up how many guys played for the Pacers tonight. You don't play the amount of guys that he plays. He played 11 guys tonight.
That's pretty crazy for an NBA playoff game. And so the Pacers, with the pace they play, the conditioning they have, I really think that it's like they are built for this type of situation where it's like you've seen it two times in the last three games where they're just going to keep going at you and they're not going to give up. And Kenny Atkinson even admitted it.
He was like, we ran out of gas, which I don't understand that either because the Cavs didn't have a guy over 40 minutes. But it's all credits to the Pacers. I know that the Cavs fans can say, oh, we missed this call, this call, that call. The Pacers are just – they have alligator blood. They do not die. And they have a belief in Tyrese Halliburton.
He even said after, he's like, there's no way I was passing that up. He's stepped back three to win the game, silenced the crowd. What a stud.
And you poked the bear to start the game. That was the dumbest move that the Cavs fans could have done is to chant overrated at Halliburton before it got started. Why would you do that? Why would you do that? He already knows that his fellow players talk about him being overrated. You don't have to remind him of it. That's going to piss him off a little bit. So dumb move by Cavs fans.
But when you say that they ran out of gas, I think they're just talking about Donovan Mitchell. I think Donovan Mitchell was the whole team. He scored 48 points. And then at the end, it was like every time he got banged around a little bit, he would take an extra 30 seconds on the ground because, yeah, he's fucking tired, man. He scored 48 points.
Yeah, he was great. And we should mention, obviously, the Cavs were very banged up. Evan Mobley didn't play. DeAndre Hunter didn't play. Darius Garland didn't play. Those are three significant pieces to the Cavs. And they needed Donovan Mitchell to just be, you know, 48, 49, 48 points. Was it 48 points? Did he finish with 48? Yeah. I mean, they needed every single bit of that and more.
But again, I think it's more about the Pacers just like they just never quit. And Rick Carlisle is a very underrated coach. And this Pacers team is fun. And I don't know what like if the Cavs don't get healthy, they're in serious trouble.
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Chapter 7: What listener questions were addressed?
Utah also jumped up. They're four.
Yeah, we're three. Because I know the Blackhawks had the second best chance to get the number one pick. So they got kind of screwed there. But... Whatever, three. Blackhawks are going to be good in another couple of years. I think so. I don't know how to auto... I don't know how to get... I don't know how to get off of auto-renew on my season tickets, so those are generational.
My kids are going to have them. Their kids are going to have them. That's something I got. It's out of my hands. The season, we get to late March, and I just get an email that says... Thank you for your first installment for your Blackhawks tickets renewal.
You think that's bad? My grandkids are going to have Indianapolis cold season tickets because I can't figure out how to unsubscribe from that. So this is going to be three seasons in a row.
Yeah. I made the smart choice with those doing the game-by-game when we did it because I knew I was going to get stuck in an auto-renew again.
And that's where I'm at. But I get a nice gift from Mr. Ursae once a year, so that's cool.
Yeah.
All right. Do we have anything else before we kick it to ourselves and we have special guest Jerry O'Connell and then Kirk Goldsberry? Let's hop back in the studio. Okay, before we get to Monday night's action in the NBA, which was incredible, you can see it in front of us. The new Mountain Dew cans are out. PFT, it is summertime. What's your favorite part about summer? Mine? Baseball. Outside.
Mine's probably drinking Mountain Dew with the boys. I love that. Golf season, Hank? Yep. Beach? Getting it ready in golf season? Maybe going to the beach? Boating? River or a lake? Yeah, my favorite personally is vacation. Vacation? Well, guess what? Nothing goes better with baseball, boating, golf, beach, and hanging with your friends than the refreshing, citrusy kick of Mountain Dew.
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Chapter 8: What are the implications of the NBA playoff results?
Inspired brain activity is taking a three when you're down two. Right. To get a one-point win. And then genius level is taking a three when you're down one.
Well, it was imperfect. Like, he stepped right into it. It was perfectly... He was wide open. Incredible game by the Nuggets. The Nuggets are just fun. Like, Jokic is so much fun to watch. I just fucking... I love watching him play basketball. I do have a few things that I'm concerned about for the Thunder in this series. Now, I think it's going to be a long series. We've talked about the youth.
The other things that I have that I'm concerned about the Thunder. One, this was the bugaboo all year was like they're not very big down low and they get bullied a little bit because Chet Holmgren is not exactly stout. I think Jokic could eat Chet.
Yeah. I think maybe a week. Give him a week, he'll consume them.
Especially when he's just played a full series against Zubac.
Yeah, right. So then he goes to... It's basically he played a full series with like six batting donuts on, and now he's swinging a wiffle ball bat. So the Nuggets out-rebounded the Thunder 63-43, including 21 offensive rebounds. That feels like a problem. That feels like something that might... They might have to figure out, hey, we're going to have to put more people on the glass.
I don't know what that's going to end up being, but that's a problem. I also think the problem with the Thunder is who's going to be their second guy because they wasted a Caruso game. Caruso was awesome this game. Jalen Green was not the second. You need a second guy who can step up, and they had a bunch of guys who scored between 10 and 15 points.
The Thunder have so many guys, Big Cat, right? They don't have the second guy. PFT, you got to step in. What, about guys? Yeah, they have guys for days.
I forgot your guy's guy off. Who's their second guy to score? Probably Jalen Williams. Sorry, I said Jalen Green. Jalen Williams.
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