00:00The New York Knicks last night take game one on the road and they are now three wins away
00:06from an NBA championship and let you all just acknowledge this now. It's happening. You know
00:13it's happening. I know it's happening. Tyrone knows it's happening. Ethan over there in the
00:19corner knows it's happening. It is a wrap. Now, will the Spurs fight back and have some
00:25self-respect and win a single game? I'm not sure that they will. But I can tell you this.
00:30We are going to be celebrating a championship down the Canyon of Heroes because the New York Knicks
00:37are not just the best team in the NBA. They're the grittiest team. Down 14 midway through the
00:44third quarter. They go on a patented now New York Knick run. The Spurs have no answers for it.
00:50Whether that's Wemby, you know, coming up very small offensively for them. He was brilliant
00:56defensively. And one of the great things about Wemby, to be fair about it, is something that
01:01never shows up in a statistic. He changed his shots without ever showing up. I would say
01:08last night, and I don't want to exaggerate it. The New York Knicks passed up on about 20
01:14layups. Yes. Yes. Like no exaggeration. Just because Wemby was somewhere in the paint. So
01:21I do want to acknowledge his brilliance defensively and how he changes the game. But offensively,
01:27disaster. I thought he was gassed. I'll be honest about it. He was. He was. Throughout
01:32that game, not just in the fourth quarter. And once again, every time somebody tells me what
01:38Jalen Brunson can't do, Jalen Brunson does it. And we can talk about, you know, the knee injury,
01:43injury, and then the ankle injury. And obviously, he does go to the locker room there in the
01:47first half. Comes back out. We're all concerned. Oh, ACL, meniscus, something like that. And
01:53did he shoot great? He did not. But he had 30 points last night. And obviously, hits the
01:59dagger three in the corner there. That's a key bucket for the Knicks comeback. And then
02:0511-point run. Down a point. The Knicks score the final 11 points of that game. They overcame
02:11bad officiating, I thought, in the first half. Or at least unbalanced officiating, where
02:16the Spurs took 12 free throws in the first half. The Knicks took three. That's a major
02:21disparity. It evened out a little bit more in the second half. But look, at some point,
02:26you're all going to have to acknowledge what you don't want to acknowledge. The New York
02:31Knicks are winning a championship. Let's just get that through your heads. It's happening.
02:36Yeah. And it ain't going seven. It's happening. That's going seven. The New York
02:41Knicks are winning a championship. No, they really are. I want to give credit to a couple
02:45of things you brought up. The defense that the Knicks play in that third quarter, when
02:49they ratchet it up, and everybody buys in on a defensive end. And they also started that
02:54run, got to give a lot of credit to Alvarado. Brunson was on the bench. And Schammett.
02:58Yeah, during that part, right? Schammett almost took Brunson out, pushing the guy into his
03:02legs, but he redeems himself there. The defense, the level they play. And you can't, listen,
03:07your name can be Mitch, but you can't coach like a Mitch. And Mitch coached like a Mitch
03:12last night, and it killed them. I like that. The best player on the floor yesterday for
03:18the Spurs was not Wemby, wasn't any of their starters. It was Harper Jr. Especially by the
03:22first half, for sure. Yeah. To not play him and continue to put Fox out there, who was
03:26like three for 13, 0 for from three, to have him out there down the stretch and not put
03:31Harper back in the game. In the teeth of the game, with his size and everything like
03:36that, was a gigantic mistake by Mitch. He's going with his veteran, I understand it, but
03:41you can't be afraid to play the kid when the kid's hot. He coached like a Mitch, and that
03:46played a huge role in them losing. As the Knicks raised their level, he allowed it to
03:51happen by not making adjustments. Yeah, a couple things just, look, we can go over a lot of
03:55aspects, we will, because it's the majority of today's show, Game 1 NBA Finals. Of course.
03:59And Nick's, of course, winning on the road. I thought he got out-coached by Mike Brown.
04:04Absolutely. I thought Nick's very interesting early on. Did not have Jalen Brunson bringing
04:08the ball up, which was interesting. And I thought defensively early on as well, they had Carl
04:14Anthony Towns guarding Wemby wherever he was. And he did a great job. He did. That might
04:19have been the best defensive performance Towns has put on this year. And offensively, he was
04:24aggressive. Like, you know, look, it's very hard to score one-on-one against Wemby, especially
04:29in the paint. All right. And there were two, three specific plays last night where I was
04:34amazed. I mean, take my fandom out of it. There were two plays by Carl Anthony Towns
04:39where off the dribble got right past Wemby and got up to the lane and made a layup. So
04:46one-on-one, he's able to beat Wemby Amma off the dribble. Very hard to do that for a big
04:52man, number one. And number two, nine minutes to go in the game. All right. The Knicks are up
04:58two at this point. And O.J. Anobi's got the ball outside on the right side. And it's
05:05man-to-man. And it's him against Wemby. Nobody is going to attempt a three-point shot there
05:11because of Wemby's reach. And he pumped fake twice, went up, and drilled the three-pointer
05:17right at Wemby's face. Now, that put the Knicks up five. I know they went up eight. The Spurs
05:22came back and tied it and took the lead by one. And then the Knicks ran off 11
05:26straight. But you can look at individual plays in a game. You're talking about
05:30Alvarado. I thought Alvarado's minutes were key last night. And he was great. I
05:35thought Shamit. He had some moments last night, had a big three again, which was
05:39brilliant. But I think last night, Mike Brown out-coached Johnson. No, you're
05:45absolutely right about that. Now, is that the deciding reason they won? Probably
05:48not. But I thought the coaching edge went to the Knicks. The gritty edge went to the
05:53Knicks. And then the Spurs got caught. And it's interesting. So Champagney, who's their
05:59local kid, played in St. John's, right? Great first half. First half, he made a couple of
06:04huge threes. Made five of the first half. And then he started trash talking. And it was
06:09interesting to me. I even made the note of it. I did a halftime show on YouTube last
06:13night. I go, Champagney's got to stop. You haven't won anything. Right, just play.
06:18Right, you got a seven-point lead at halftime, right? It was a 55-48, I think, was the score.
06:22Because the Spurs had a great final minute and a half of that first half to take the
06:26lead and go up by seven. And a lot of that was Harper Jr. Yes. At Champagney makes five
06:32threes. And I'm going, why are you trash talking, man? Like, you've accomplished
06:36nothing in the NBA. And we're in the first half of the NBA finals. Champagney in the
06:42second half, goose egg. Yeah. Did not make a shot from the floor. Went to the
06:47free throw line once, but did not make a bucket in that second half and only took
06:51two shots. And that's what happens with a young, immature team. Like, if you're a
06:5520, 22-year-old kid, you like to talk smack. And all of a sudden, a grown man's
07:00going to show up in the second half and remind you that it's not a 24-minute game.
07:05It's a 48-minute game. Knicks win by double digits. That's all they do is win by
07:09double digits. Obviously, they covered the spread. They were underdogs
07:12yesterday. But now you've set up, I think, the entire finals is now tomorrow night.
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