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Chapter 1: Did Dan snitch on J.R. Smith?
He is. The problem is you can't burn him out for 46 minutes. He needs to be like 90.
And you just can't. He's not fun to watch at the free throw line.
Stan was saying the other day during the game, every time he grabs an offensive rebound, just foul it.
I can hear Stan's eye roll sometimes at Reggie.
Stan's going to be on this week. I want to hear you ask him that.
There was a moment with like 30 seconds left and Reggie's like, you got a foul here. And your math friends were probably losing their minds. No, you don't. No, you don't. And you could hear the eyes rolling on SVG at that one bit of analysis.
Why didn't anyone roll their eyes at Richard Jefferson saying both teams were literally playing for their lives in game three OKC Minnesota? For all my objections to it, I'm just saying you can't say OKC is playing for their lives.
They're up 2-0.
I'll take game for your life whenever someone wants to say game for your life. I don't care. How do you know he didn't have inside info?
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Chapter 2: What happened to the Knicks during the playoffs?
I'm sorry to be... They're still up if they lose. I'm sorry to be so mad about it, but the game didn't matter at all to OKC. Like, at all, never mind being for their lives. According to you, not according to him. They could have just not come to the game and it wouldn't have mattered.
I'm just considering maybe we didn't have all the information going into the game.
And then they won after they lost their lives.
Right. Hard to do. Impossible. They should win the series. I mean, let's just move on. Knicks Pacers. The rare Eastern Conference Finals. That just keeps starting. Home team win again. Scott Foster did what Scott Foster does. The extender. The extender. Sounds like a great Jason Statham movie.
What does it sound more like? A Jason Statham movie or a Jimmy Johnson commercial for erectile pills?
Wow.
Wow.
One of the most shocking things of my lifetime commercially was seeing Jimmy Johnson in a race suit, a race car suit. Extensive. Yes, doing commercials for something that makes your pee-pee longer.
Boing.
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Chapter 3: Why is J.R. Smith's behavior surprising?
I don't think the Knicks like playing in the Mecca. Weird. I spent the entire third quarter... Coming up with trades to get Carl Anthony Towns off the Knicks. And spent the entire fourth quarter saying he was the best Knick of all time. It's quite the rollercoaster, these games. T.J. McConnell leads the NBA in pesky. Campaign... leads the NBA in irrational confidence.
The Mario Chalmers top five players in NBA history who had the most irrational confidence. He has naming rights. Number five, Reuben Patterson. For dubbing himself the Kobe Stopper. Number four, J.R. Smith.
Number three. I saw him, by the way. You haven't lived until you experience the NBA playoffs the way that I did this weekend. I was right near Madison Square Garden when it emptied. It was very quiet as it emptied on Saturday night. Right. It was just as quiet Sunday morning, but I did see, right in front of my hotel, smoking a joint in the street, J.R.
Smith, and it made me feel good about where I was in the world. Huh. Seems right.
That doesn't sound like him.
Is he coaching somewhere? He is. He's golfing pretty well, too. He's a coach somewhere. He's a great golfer. And he was just right. He's coaching a college. I will not get used to being in New York City and seeing people smoke openly in the street. But to have J.R. Smith do it felt right.
Yes. I saw J.R. Smith one time at Dayland Mall without a shirt. Just in the mall, no shirt. Nobody said anything to him. Smoking? Not smoking. When he got outside, yeah.
But in the mall, just no shirt. He spent, after they won the championship, both him and Ron Artest spent a lot of time, days, either in Artest's case, wearing his uniform around the city, or being shirtless. And J.R. Smith just being shirtless.
New York City is weird. It's a free-for-all, man. Everyone's just smoking weed.
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Chapter 4: What does 'snitching' mean in today's context?
Wait a minute.
Yeah, yeah. Don't be putting his business out there. Wait a minute, that's not... J.R. Smith does not have that kind of reputation for you to be doing that. You know, Mike, not cool.
Chapter 5: How effective is the Knicks' defense without Brunson?
Just say I wasn't sure it was him. Could have been an impersonator.
I wasn't sure it was weed, but I was. Because it was J.R. Smith. I didn't even see smoke or anything in his hand.
So seeing J.R. Smith confirmed for you that it was indeed marijuana.
It was 8 o'clock in the morning. It's J.R. Smith. I don't see any smoke around him, but clearly he's smoking, right? Because it's J.R. Smith.
Wow, early buzz. Wake and bake.
Number three. Is that still snitching?
Yeah, man.
If it's legal?
It is legal. You never know what he's trying to do with his life, what states he might be trying to do that stuff in his life. I know he wasn't trying to hide it.
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Chapter 6: What are the irrationally confident players in the NBA?
Not just give yourself a little lead, right? Because you want him to do that only on the road, or you want him to shut out the team in the top of the first and then hit a home run in the bottom of the first. Just to be clear.
I understand. Road, home, just do it when you're pitching. Okay.
You want him to give your team a lean means you have to be pitching on the road and hit the home run. Otherwise, it means you have to not. So do it on the road.
Okay.
I think he should pitch and hit at the same time if you were any good. What you do is you bring a bat to the mound, and you hit a line. Instead of throwing a fastball, you hit a line drive over the plate.
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Chapter 7: Is it bad baseball for a leadoff hitter to lead in homers?
Strike! He's all three! None of that makes any sense. Sure it does. None of that made any sense. I think so.
Better not hit it over that short porch either. That's what I'm talking about.
Nothing, I don't even understand what you said. You don't. No.
Okay, Otani is on the mound with a bat. Instead of grooving a fastball down the plate, what's he doing? He's tossing the ball up, hitting a line drive over the plate.
Like in the cartoons, yeah.
Batter can't get around it. So he's Bugs Bunny. Yes. Well, I mean, how fast does a ball leave a bat? Everybody's got metrics now. Call your math friends. How fast does the ball leave a bat?
It's 120 miles an hour sometimes when it's Otani.
Okay, there you go. It changes every time. There isn't a universal MPH on it.
Okay, but how fast do you throw? Let's say 100 miles an hour. You can hit it harder than that, right?
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