Yahoo Sports senior NBA reporter Vincent Goodwill is joined by Bomani Jones to preview New York’s first-round series against Detroit and discuss if the Knicks head coach is in danger of losing his job should the three-seed fall in the opening round. Hear the full conversation on “Good Word with Goodwill” and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.
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I think this series is critical for Tom Thibodeau to win and then be better win this series, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no.
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No, no, look here.
I don’t care what your seed is, you get the game 1 and the game 7 it’s your career, right?
You lose this, it’s hot seat next year.
And the reason is they’ve made the moves.
I don’t know if this is a roster that is good enough to say you should win the East, but it is definitely good enough to say you should win in the first round no matter what happens, which is to say.
You either should be good enough in the regular season that you get a favorable matchup in the first round, or you should be good enough that if you don’t get a favorable matchup in the first round, it’s because your guys were hurt and everybody’s healthy now and y’all should be able to get it done.
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Like, no, no, no, no, no, this is, this is, this is it for like.
I don’t know exactly how they feel about Carl Anthony Towns, but they felt like paying them $60 million which I believe is what you have to do, you know, on the back end of that contract.
They feel like they got that guy in Jalen Bronson, right?
They got Bridges.
The reason they gave up all they gave up for Bridges, it’s one of the best contracts that you got in the league, and he’s a dude that you want in the capacity that you have him in.
Yeah, they think you better get this done and then and then they just get what, 30 to OG last year, right?
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That’s, that’s the reason why.
I’m not, here’s the thing.
Every guy, every team has a guy that you’re not sure about.
And for me, it’s not Carlos Michel Bridges.
Yeah.
That’s the guy that I’m like, I’m wondering if Thibs is gonna ask him to, to be able to do more than he’s capable of doing.
Like, we know what to expect from Carl.
Carl’s gonna have these games where he hits 6 3s, and then he’s gonna have the game where he plays the Sheela Ebongos in the first quarter on somebody and gets 2.5 fouls, and then you’re gonna say, Carl, why you do that?
He’s Carl’s gonna say, cause I do, cause that’s what I do.
And that’s what Thibodeaux.
Has to guard against.
I think it’s even more critical.
You saying hot seat next year.
I’m saying hot seat now.
