00:00Knicks did not win yesterday, should have won yesterday.
00:04They should have won a couple of games, but just can't seem to get it done.
00:08But I'm willing to give, you know, teams right after a championship,
00:12and I don't care what sport it is, you know, Craig,
00:16especially with somebody who's big.
00:18I wouldn't exactly look at the first month of the following season
00:22with any sort of, you know, oh, boy, they're in trouble.
00:26I mean, that's a lot of basketball, a lot of whatever the sport is.
00:31You played more than anybody else.
00:34I would even the runner-up, whoever they beat, right?
00:37And you got to give them a little leeway.
00:41You think it was easy for the Dodgers to go back-to-back?
00:45I mean, you know, and the idea that going three in a row,
00:48it's not an easy thing to do.
00:51So I would cut some slack in an 82, 162-game season.
00:56I would cut some slack with some of these teams that we think just as if they
01:01just picked up from where they were six months ago,
01:04and they're just going to roll right into the season.
01:06It never works like that.
01:08Yeah, I think that makes sense.
01:10Although from the Heat, who I follow the closest, from their perspective,
01:13it's unusual because they usually start off very good and then fade.
01:16But clearly, this working in Giannis to their offense and figuring out how to play defense.
01:22I think what I would say about tonight's game with the Heat,
01:24this is what I would say, is that if you really believe
01:29and you want to lay eight and a half with Miami tonight
01:31and you think they're going to beat Dallas by that, you could go ahead.
01:34But you are going to feel really stupid after if they don't cover this spread.
01:38You're going to be like, why did I do this after I just literally saw
01:41them play three games in a row?
01:43The first two, they were horrible.
01:44The third game against Charlotte, yes, they were in the game
01:48and then faded late, and then Charlotte ended up winning
01:50with a couple of threes at the end.
01:52But this is one of those games that's like a human being.
01:55If you bet Miami and you don't win, you sort of deserve to lose.
01:59Like, find something else.
02:01Have you not watched the first three games?
02:03Is this like, oh, all of a sudden you're going to just expect something different?
02:05Based on what? I don't know.
02:07Now, again, they could win by 20.
02:09But I suppose, Joe, with all the slate of games that you just mentioned,
02:12that you could probably find something else to lose and feel better about your loss
02:17than taking the Heat minus eight and a half.
02:20And then Dallas, you know, late bucket, they lose by five or four or something like that.
02:24What have they shown that makes you believe that that would be the case?
02:27That would be the case.
