Mikal Bridges is PERFECT fit with Knicks after Nets trade, NY better than Celtics? | Hoops Tonight

Mikal Bridges is PERFECT fit with Knicks after Nets trade, NY better than Celtics? | Hoops Tonight

all right welcome to Hoops tonight here at the volume happy Wednesday everybody hope all you guys are having a great week so far well we got our first couple of Trades over this NBA offseason a couple days ago Alex cruso got traded from the Chicago Bulls to the Oklahoma City Thunder we have not had a chance to react to that yet so we’ll be reacting to that at the tail end of today’s show but we’re going to be starting with that massive deal from last night as male Bridges gets traded from the Brooklyn Nets to the New York Knicks for an absolute Hall of draft compensation so we’re going to get into every angle of those trades from every team I’m excited to get into it you guys know the drill before we get started subscribe to the Hoops Tonight YouTube channel so you don’t miss any more of our videos follow me on Twitter _ Jason LT so you guys don’t miss show announcements don’t forget about our podcast feed wherever you get your podcast under Hoops tonight then keep dropping mailbag questions in those YouTube comments so we can keep hitting them throughout the rest of this postseason we’re actually going to be doing a mailbag at the end of this week all right let’s talk some basketball so the first question everyone’s going to be asking is was this an overpay and they the Knicks pay a lot four unprotected first round picks one protected first round pick one Swap and a second round pick so by any measure an absolute Hall of draft compensation for male Bridges now the interesting piece here is I don’t necessarily think this is an accurate measure of where the market will be this summer mainly because I think a lot of teams are going to be looking to trade some pretty high quality players and so that kind of shifts the supply and demand Dynamic right like go back to last year’s deadline there just weren’t very many players available and so it was kind of a sellers Market guys were waiting to get blown away with offers it didn’t really happen right like this summer I expect more player movement and I expect there to be more deals that are kind of let’s just say a lot less draft compensation than what we just saw I think the backstory here that’s important to keep in mind is the Brooklyn Nets are super high on male Bridges they loved him they viewed him as a franchise Cornerstone they did not want to trade him this is one of those situations where the Nick basically put Brooklyn in a situation where they couldn’t say no they had to accept this incredible Hall and pivot into a rebuild especially going into a really interesting draft next year because the Knicks just put too much on the table so was it an overpay yeah technically yes but this is what it costs to get a player that’s unavailable there are a lot of players around the league that front offices are not looking to trade but if you call them and you offer just a ton of stuff you might be able to primy them away and this was a prime example of that the Knicks knew they wanted this particular guy I think there’s a very we’re going to get into the basketball Dynamics here in a minute but I think there are some specific reasons why the Knicks really wanted male Bridges I think they wanted a functional plug- Inplay piece I didn’t think they wanted the risk of a higher powered star if that makes sense and so male kind of fits that mold and just kind of view as an easy glue guy that fits the culture of the Knicks right so there was a particular guy that they really wanted that technically wasn’t really available this is something I was hearing ing way back into last season the Nets loved male Bridges they did not want to move him and so the Knicks just put it all on the table and they were able to pull it off right and again now the Nets can pivot into a full rebuild from here heading into a stacked draft so is it an overpay yes but that is just what it cost to get a player that a franchise did not want to trade now moving on to the fit with male bridges on the Knicks I want to start on the offensive end of the floor so we’re going to get into a bunch of De details here first of all he’s an excellent off ball player excellent spot up player he was 70th percentile or better in points per possession converting spot up situations in 2021 2022 and 2023 had a little bit of a Down year last year he was 60th percentile just 1.06 points per spot up possession but the spacing was pretty rough in Brooklyn and he did still shoot pretty well in catch and shoot situations he was 38% on catch and shoot jump shots which amounted to 57% in effective field goal percentage or 1.14 points per shot which is still a really good number as far as on ball stuff he struggles like one-on-one with a Defender squared up with him but he’s actually a pretty solid offscreen player so he gets 0.72 points per ISO when he was shooting last year for Brooklyn but off in these offscreen numbers they’re not like amazing by any stretch but again you got to look at this in the context of the type of players he was playing with in Brooklyn coming off of screens he was 0.94 points per possession in pick and roll including passes that’s not bad that’s pretty average right 1.12 points per possession when he’s shot coming off of screens that’s a really good number so like he’s one of those guys that when he’s going against kind of traditional coverages right like a a a Defender chasing over the top of the screen and he’s working against like a drop coverage big or some sort of like traditional screen coverage he’s actually really good at operating in that situation again he he was asked to do a ton of shot creation for Brooklyn is that the ideal role for him no so if you’re like one of those guys that’s like looking at his numbers in Brooklyn and you’re like oh man like you know male Bridges is a pretty mediocre player like yeah is he mediocre within the context of the star role meaning like the guy that’s taking on a ton of shot creation the guy that you’re depending on late in games like yeah he’s going to underwhelm you in some of those areas but there is real value to the experience that he got in Brooklyn he just spent two years or a year and a half guess yeah a year and a half he just spent a year and a half pretending or pretending is the wrong word but practicing being that guy right and so as a result he just got a ton of repetition coming off of dribble handoffs coming off of ball screens and just learning how to operate and generate advantages for his team and like I watched about a hundred of his most recent pick and rolles in dhos at the end of this last season and he’s just gotten so much better at it over the course of the last 12 months like he can he can make the reads at a much higher level now he can hit the pocket pass when it’s open in ball screens he can read the low man and make the skip pass he takes advantage of the simple reads that are available too like this is something I’ve always appreciated about a good pick and role player like if you come off a ball screen and a dude’s helping down at the nail just throw the swing pass because that guy now has a closeout opportunity it’s not going to be any different than if you work into the lane and throw some super complicated over-the-top skip pass to the weak side corner it’s still aose out opportunity for an offensive player so like he’ll come off those ball screens and if he sees nail nail help he’ll just throw that simple pass over to the wing he’s just become kind of like a steady ball handler right again not the guy that you want to have super high volume on a great team but these reps that he got in Brooklyn are valuable for him becoming a more versatile offensive player than he was when he was in Phoenix right this is where I want to talk about the New York Knicks offense for a little bit and we’re going to uh we’re going to try a new kind of like format here on the show today where I’m going to try to use like essentially a clipboard to demonstrate some of these Concepts but like uh before we go over to the clipboard I want to talk a little bit surface level the Knicks ran five Out Concepts last year but very much would they Brute Force finish so they would like set up in some like five out uh kind of like sets to start possessions but more often than not it would end with like a cleared ISO for Jaylen Brunson or a kick and roll for Brunson with Isaiah hartenstein or a guard guard screen at the top of the key uh trying to attack a weak Defender that’s guarding the other uh that’s guarding like Dante Devan chenzo or Duce McBride you know we saw a lot of that in the Indiana Pacers series for instance for instance right so like even though these are five Out Concepts for the Knicks it’s been just a steady dose of jayen Brunson and one of the main reasons why that is is in order to run real five Out Concepts like to to get the the the biggest benefits of five out which is ball and player movement right it’s ball and player movement it’s ball reversal it’s going side to side multiple actions in the same shot clock right in order to get that you need a certain amount of aggregate ball handling you need lots of guys on the floor that can run action lots of guys on the floor that can dribble shoot and pass and it’s not that the Knicks didn’t have that they had guys that were capable but not very many highlevel ball handlers right like the only other guy that was really handling the ball that much for them was Dante D venzo over the course of that playoff run right and like again Dante D venzo if he’s your second best ball handler you don’t have enough ball handling on the floor to really capitalize on the ball and player movement that you get out of five out sets right if he’s your third or fourth best ball handler on the floor suddenly it becomes a more achievable goal so I want to get over to the uh I want to get over to the uh the the clipboard here for a second so we can talk about some of these Concepts in more detail so what I have here is just a basic horn set right and we’re going to view number one here as Jaylen Brunson so like this is a a typical five out kind of start to a possession where what we would see the Knicks do last year is we would essentially see hartenstein set essentially a cross screen for Brunson he would come off into this area and this would be like Josh hardt or Dante D venzo and they’d make an entry to Jaylen Brunson here at the elbow and then these guys would just clear out to the weak side and Brunson would just work in ISO so it starts as like a five out concept but it would end in essentially a a just an opportunity for Brute Force type of attack from Jaylen Brunson or similarly they would uh have like Jaylen Brunson start down here in the corner and they’d have like a uh a a horns type of setup where essentially they would have uh you know a a post entry here to hartenstein and then Josh Hart would come down and screen and then Brunson would come up and hartenstein would come up for the ball screen he’d come off but then once again it would just turn into four out these guys would space to the corner divon chenzo would be on the opposite Wing above the break now we’re just running Jaylen Brunson Isaiah hardenstein two-man game and it’ be like rescreen and rescreen and rescreen and they get what they’d want and it would just effectively function as a Brute Force kind of four out attack at the end of The Possession in order to run true five out and what I’m looking at there is let’s go back and set up in exactly what we were at at the start of the possession like a horn set is you want to be able to run multiple actions right so if Jaylen brunson’s here in the corner and let’s say would just run more of like a Chicago Action so like Josh Hart just makes the post entry here to hartenstein and then Josh hartstein down screens Brunson comes up and then we run a dribble handoff you want to be able to flow into it so that if this doesn’t work and Brunson comes down and runs in help he can kick over here to Josh Hart Josh Hart can dribble down let’s say this is male Bridges now male Bridges gets this dribble hand off he comes off hartenstein flows over to this side of the floor and sets another screen and male Bridges comes into the uh to the lane from this side and maybe he draws in some help and kicks to Jaylen Brunson and Jaylen Brunson can run a third action or Jaylen Brunson can attack a close out it’s being able to have multiple highlevel ball handlers so that you can flow from each side of the floor and get the defense uh like out of their strong side load up and into more of like kind of chaos right as you go from side to side doesn’t even have to necessarily be horns you can imagine a situation where they’re in more of like a pistol setup where you’ve got guys on both wings and you have the big kind of operating out of the top of the key and Jaylen Brunson dribble handoff Here Comes Dante dvon chenzo here comes a ball screen for hartstein dvon chenzo gets into the lane oh there’s nail help let’s kick over here to ogan anobi O ogan anobi dribbles down and hands it off to Mel Bridges Mel Bridges comes off here comes hartenstein to set the second screen Mel Bridges comes into the lane there is just much more ball and player movement that you can accomplish by virtue of having multiple highlevel ball handlers on the floor and that to me is what makes this concept so fascinating you have to have a certain amount of aggregate ball handling if you think of a lineup with Jaylen Brunson male Bridges Dante Devan chenzo ogan and Obi oan and Obi is your fourth best ball handler in that lineup if that happens that’s where you can achieve some of the real upside that comes from five out offense and again there’s going to be Force elements to it you’re still going to have a lot of clear out isos for Jaylen Brunson you’re still going to have a lot of ogn and Obi playing bullyball or Julius Randall if he’s still there playing Bully ball it’s not that you can’t get to that uh more often it’s just there is something to be said about I talked about this a lot in my five biggest takeaways video If you guys remember that I released earlier this morning one of the big things I talked about is I am a big believer now in that every team needs to be striving to run at least five out uh uh like setups to start possessions meaning like horn sets like specific actions at the beginning of possessions before you get into your five out motion just to give yourself more opportunities to break the set defense that you’re going against again when they’re loaded up on the strong side and you run a pick and roll it just makes things really hard if you’re running a ball screen on the third Attack Of The Possession and there’s been switches and there are guys that are out of position and this guy’s glued up on the weak side because he just was defending a guy running in action like that is where you kind of loosen things up against the set defense and give yourself easier opportunities and to me male Bridges is not another brute force star he’s another Cog in a more ball and player movement type of offense and so to me like in short I view bridg is not just as an individual offensive upgrade but as a massive increase in the team’s aggregate shooting dribbling passing ability that should allow them to substantially raise their offensive ceiling and to me that fit is just so easy and that’s before we even get to the defensive end of the floor now muel Bridges was a bit lazy this year in Brooklyn big part of that was the scheme though Nick claxon was a big who could switch and in general they had a lot of wings and so what Brooklyn did was just switch almost everything and so Mel Bridges didn’t have to fight over screens as often in Brooklyn as he did in Phoenix in Phoenix though I went back this morning and watched a bunch of tape of him in 2022 with the Suns he is so good at getting over the top of screens he has amazing length to bother guards with back pressure he’s actually really good in general at guarding kind of like quick perimeter players because he has the quickness to stay with them and the length to bother their pull up jump shots he represents an archetype of Defender that the Knicks just simply didn’t have before this trade I view ogan noi as more of the big forward rather than the perimeter forward in terms of what he can do defensively yes he can chase tyres Maxi around and try his best he can guard on the perimeter better than most big forwards but ideally you want him battling with the big bully ball forwards right you want him battling kind of against the matchup attacking guy that tries to use physical strength as an advantage that’s where ogan and Obi can hold up really well defensively ideally you don’t want him on the quickest guard you want him on the biggest scoring forward and so now you have a situation where if you can maintain or if you can retain ogan and Obi this summer you have male Bridges to guard the opposing team’s best guard and then you have Dante dienzo to guard the opposing team’s second best guard Dante dienzo is an excellent perimeter Defender right and then you have ogan and Obi to guard the other team’s best like big strong forward right so like there’s just a lot of defensive versatility you gain by add adding a true Wing long guard defender in male Bridges and so kind looking back at the trade male Bridges isn’t a super splashy name he doesn’t have the splash of a Kevin Durant or a Paul George or a LeBron James in terms of like the hype surrounding him and the Knicks did give up a ton to get him and so I can understand how it’s like oh man seven picks or six picks in a swap and we’re uh getting this like kind of like smaller name but he’s a damn good basketball player and I think he’s going to be one hell of a force multiplier in this team I think he’s gonna make everybody’s job so much easier by slotting people more properly you’re turning Dante D venzo into your primary perimeter Defender into your secondary perimeter Defender you’re turning oan anobi from a perimeter Defender into a forward Defender which is better you’re taking Dante dant chenzo from your second best shot Creator and turning him into your third Best Shot Creator you’re increasing the aggregate ball handling and shooting ability of the team there’s so much like in terms of just making the game easier for every other player on the team that has achieved by bringing male bridges into this situation and then lastly the Boston angle to be the best you have to beat the best Boston is going to have the same core as they just won the championship with and as we know Boston’s a very different type of five out offense in the sense that they’re they don’t have a T of interchanges they will run screening actions but they’re more of a drive and kick they’re more like a space you out beat you off the dribble and then play drive and kick basketball right the the the Nets or the Knicks are going to be different in the sense that Jaylen Brunson and M Jaylen Brunson can ISO but Jaylen Brunson and male Bridges aren’t like StraightLine drive like toast you off the dribble type of guy so they’re not going to beat you with that drive and kick type of game they’re going to beat you with five out player motion lots of screening actions right so like they’re different but defensively to guard Boston the comes down to containing in space with Boston you have to contain the basketball flatten out drives so you don’t have to help as hard so that you can bait them into pull up jump shots instead of letting them get easy drive and kick layups and catch and shoot threes right from there that’s where your aggregate foot speed your aggregate length becomes an advantage and again you imagine a lineup that has Dante Devan chenzo that has male bridges that has ogn and Obi Jaylen Brunson can slide his feet you know when you have that much perimeter Talent on the team you can actually do a better job of containing dribble Drive teams like the Boston Celtics and so again you have to beat Boston in order to get over the top in order to get out of that Eastern Conference this is a move that not only improves the Knicks in the grand scheme of the NBA but is specifically a piece that could help you with a Boston matchup now would I pick this Nicks team over Boston in a series at this point no I think Boston better than them but they are certainly a lot closer and we will see how all of this stuff gels together when they get into training camp and we start seeing this group play basketball together so where do we go from here as we mentioned earlier for Brooklyn they pivot full rebuild you’re hoping to get into the Cooper flag sweep Stakes as we head into next season right the reporting looks like on the Knicks front that the Knicks are going to prioritize o anobi over Isaiah hartenstein now that makes sense hartenstein is an awesome player super valuable and I think the Knicks are going to miss him especially in some of their five out sets because hartenstein was such a good passer he was a guy that in a five out system his ability to read back cuts to function as a dribble handoff guy a guy who can roll into the short area and make those floaters with his left hand at such a high rate he’s a super valuable offensive piece and the Knicks are going to miss that if they end up losing hartenstein but I think the overall increase in Perimeter Talent can go a long way towards making up for that and then again I think keeping OG instead of hartenstein is much more valuable within the context of a matchup with Boston with Boston you need as many of these long quick wings or perimeter players that can contain on the dribble as possible and So within the context of that specific matchup I think I’d rather have ogan and noi than Isaiah hartstein and I do think that’s the route to go if they can only afford to keep one of them right the real question for the Knicks is where does Julius Randall fit in all of this and honestly he doesn’t he’s not a great read and react player which makes him a better fit in more of a Brute Force system than an a five out system but they might also be able to play him at Center in matchups with Boston imagine if Mitchell Robinson just for whatever reason maybe against Boston switching he becomes a liability offensively or uh if he struggles with health or whatever it may be maybe a look where you put Julius Randall at the five because again Boston is not exactly a super physically imposing Frontline right so like maybe in a match up with Boston you look at it as like a Julius Randall at the five with OG at the four male Bridges Dante D venzo Jaylen Brunson that is a really good like five perimeter player type of lineup that still has a good amount of physicality in ogan adobi and Julius Randall on the front line that would be an interesting kind of card to have in your back pocket for a matchup with Boston but again it all comes down to what his value is League wide because if you could flip him and get rid of Julius Rand and get back functional players that can help you another Center that can run five out maybe some depth at the guard position whatever it is that’s where if you have the ability to make an upgrade using Julius Randall’s salary you you have to at least consider it right because I do think the the fit is a little clunky in terms of actually trying to achieve real ball and player movement so I’ll be interested to see whether or not there’s any value surrounding Julius Randall and if the Knicks look to move him but uh I I don’t really have an idea at this point which direction that’s going to go but this is a fun deal and I’m really happy for Knicks fans this is going to be a really fun team next year obviously the Villanova connections run strong we’re going to be covering the Knicks very closely next year uh but hopefully that’s 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let’s talk Alex cruso to the Oklahoma City Thunder so this is a super interesting deal on so many levels I want to focus on kind of the weird part first and then we’ll get into the part that makes a lot of sense to me so the weird Parts it’s bizarre to me that the Bulls valued Josh giddy so much that they didn’t ask for any additional draft compensation this deal like Josh giddy is an interesting player but he kind of has to be on the ball to be effective and he’s not good enough at being on the ball to be a primary ball handler for a great team right that really is the issue in my opinion if I look at giddy as a as a the future version of himself he’s got to become a better shooter he’s got to become a better cutter he’s got to become a better just functional off ball piece in order to make himself be valuable as a as a secondary Creator or a tertiary Creator in order for his value to make sense I just think if you put the ball in his hands a ton you’re going to be a pretty mediocre team at this point given some of his limitations especially as a shooter right so like I I don’t really understand the the the value there from Boston or excuse me from Chicago but it’s very clear that the Bulls just valued Josh giddy because they did not ask for any additional draft compensation in the deal also like Alex cruso seemed from some of the reporting to be capable of fetching at least a good first round pick in the market so they’ve looked at giddy over even first round draft compensation which I think is fascinating also on the Oklahoma City front kuso’s a little bit of a redundancy right like if you’re looking at the lineup for Oklahoma City you imagine Shay Jay dub d as your one two3 you when you think about what you know Oklahoma City really needs to do to get to the next level you think about either a good physical bruising Center that you can slot Chet homr at the four with or a big physical bruising forward that can keep Chad at the five right you’re looking for something that can beef up the front court so like going for Alex Alex Caruso especially at a position where you already kind of have a plethora of talent seems a little confusing so on the surface the trade seems weird but here’s why I love it for Oklahoma City obviously it’s a discounted deal you just traded a player that doesn’t really fit with the idealized version of what you are especially in the playoffs for a guy who has started games in the NBA finals for the team that won the championship like he’s one of the most highly regarded role players in the NBA i i as a Lakers fan rooted for this guy I was devastated when jeie bus let him go simply because of money it was one of the many catastrophic mistakes that jeie bus and the ownership group of the Los Angeles Lakers have made over the course of the last few years I promise you Alex cuso has always been this good it’s not something that just happened in Chicago he’s been someone that I’ve uh uh really valued and appreciated for appreciated for a really long time and it’s unfortunate that he made his way to Chicago to begin with I promise you thunder fans as long as he can stay healthy you guys are going to love this guy he’s one of the very best perimeter defenders in the NBA he’s a proven effective playoff role player but what’s fascinating to me is like if you actually look at Caruso and the way you want him to fit into a championship team he’s actually kind of better when you keep him down around like 25 minutes one of the main reasons why is this is a guy who plays extremely hard all the time that doesn’t say that you can’t scale his minutes up if you want him to close a big game or play 32 33 minutes in a big playoff game it’s not like Alex is not capable of that it’s just that he is a guy that goes Balls to the walls the entire time that he’s in the game and so keeping in that kind of 25 minute range is a way to get really uh good Effectiveness out of him in those 25 minutes right so the Thunder shouldn’t have too much of a problem carving out a 25 minute type of roll for him even with the talent that they have already in the back court with Shay Jay duub and Lou Dort also guys like Aaron Wiggins are going to be a free agent next year you’re eventually going to have to pay him if you want him to stay on board you’re eventually gonna have to pay kesan Wallace in the long run if he stays on board right so like if you can lock up Alex kuso on an affordable deal for four to five years then you can afford to lose an Aaron Wiggins to restricted free agency you can afford to lose a Cas on Wallace in a few years if you have Alex Cru to kind of fill that role as your first bench guard or bench Wing that comes in and guards the other team’s best player right cuso is also a better fit within this timeline this team has real Championship potential as soon as next season if they can get a highquality front Court player I will be moving them into my top tier of Championship contenders that’s how impressed I was in general by Oklahoma City and how well they fared against the Dallas Mavericks in that second round series which by the way they were this close to winning if they don’t foul PJ Washington in the left corner in game six they’re going home for game seven which statistically speaking goes to the home team that’s not to say that it’s a guarantee the Mavs might very well have gone into D Oklahoma City in one but the Thunder were very close to making it to the Conference Finals right so like they’re they’re they’re like one piece away and Caruso is a substantial piece but the biggest weakness of the team is that front Court athleticism and like and just kind of like uh like uh just someone that can just be a pain in the ass on the glass it was just kind of a hard worker that just kind of solves some of their dirty work issues on the front line right if they get that type of guy and you add Alex cruso to this equation and you add a year of experience a year of the pain and suffering of losing in that second round series painfully the way that they did that’s a team that I think is a top tier Championship Contender so like Caruso fits within the urgency of your opportunity to win right now like he is a veteran piece he’s 30 years old he brings Championship level playoff experience I love that fit and so who’s that front Court piece this is where I want to kind of tie everything back to the Brooklyn Nets New York Knicks trade so in the as a byproduct of the New York Knicks trade the reporting is that Isaiah hartenstein looks to be the guy that the Knicks may not be able to retain if Isaiah hartstein enters free agency and Oklahoma City can jump on him what a perfect piece that would be alongside Chad homr at the four several reasons why I like this first of all in five out offense as we talked about earlier for the Knicks Isaiah hartstein is just such a good dribble handoff fulgram such a good screener such a good backo passer such a good rle man right such a good offensive rebounder does all of these things that can really unlock a five out offense he’s also just an absolute an absolute star on the glass this dude can crash the offensive glass with the best of them he can clean up defensive possessions if you put him next to Chad holgren you fundamentally alter the physical profile of your front line even next to chat you can imagine running a high drop coverage where and this is a Thunder team that likes to be aggressive you can put shett as the low man now you can put hartenstein on the other team Center hartenstein can come out high in a drop coverage and be active with his hands now Chad is the guy that is functioning is that low man who can help at The Rim in ball screens while also having the length to close to the corner and contest corner Shooters on skip passes this would be the if the Thunder can get Isaiah hartenstein that to me or a similar type of player but Isaiah hartstein to me is is my favorite kind of fit there if they can get Isaiah hartenstein I would put them in my top tier of Championship contenders I would put them up there with Denver and Boston that is how good I think the Su team can be if they beef up the front Court all right guys uh that’s all I have for today only last thing I wanted to hit really quickly before we get out I cover uh acolyte episode five came out last night and it was just absolutely epic just a Sith Lord just cutting down a dozen Jedi it was amazing I broke that down that episode down with my buddy Luke on my our two sons podcast feed that’s this podcast over here that’s the one that uh um I cover all like TV shows and movies and stuff like that we also hit House of the Dragon episode 2 a couple days ago so make sure you guys head over there if you’re in to non-basketball content we’re going to be back if there’s another trade we’ll be back tonight but if there’s no trades we’ll be back tomorrow morning to break down everything from the NBA draft uh just I would imagine over the course of the next two days just a lot of reacting to draft trades and then we’re going to do a mailbag on Friday so don’t forget to keep dropping mailbag questions in those YouTube comments all right guys that is all I have for you guys today I sincerely appreciate you for supporting the show we will see you shortly depending on what kind of chaos we see a [Music]

Jason Timpf reacts to the New York Knicks’ massive trade with the Brooklyn Nets for Mikal Bridges. Did New York overpay for Bridges or is he worth the price to be reunited with Jalen Brunson, Donte DiVincenzo, and Josh Hart following their time together with Villanova. Later, Jason reacts to the Oklahoma City Thunder trading with the Chicago Bulls for Alex Caruso and how that will impact last season’s #1 seed in the West as Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and co. look to elevate to a championship-caliber team.

Timeline:
00:00 – Introduction
00:52 – Did Knicks overpay for Mikal Bridges?
03:21 – How Bridges fits on offense
06:55 – Why Knicks offense will massively elevate
13:58 – Impact on Knicks defense
15:45 – Why Jason loves this trade
16:44 – How Knicks match up with Celtics
18:38 – What will Knicks do from here?
19:52 – What happens to Julius Randle?
22:37 – Alex Caruso to Thunder

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