00:00Do you think this series is over?
00:05A lot's going to be predicated for me on what happens in the first quarter.
00:10Because, you know, if you're San Antonio, you're saying to yourselves,
00:15well, we haven't played well, and if we perform better down the stretch
00:21of game number one or game number two, this could be the other way.
00:24The problem is that do you have a young team for the first time looking at
00:30themselves saying, well, can we do it?
00:34We haven't played well, but neither has New York.
00:37I think the most important part of this series is going to be the first quarter
00:43because you've got to make sure if you're Mitch Johnson to try and keep the game
00:48close, and then you kind of win it again.
00:51I don't see them going into New York and blowing out the Knicks.
00:55I think there's a better chance of them getting blown out because the moment
01:00may be too big for them.
01:02He's got to be really, really smart with if Fox isn't playing well,
01:08you go to Harper right away.
01:10Take Luke Cornett and sit his ass down and don't play him.
01:15I'd rather see Bismarck Biambo in the lineup or Kelly Olenek in the lineup
01:20than Luke Cornett.
01:21You've got to shorten that rotation, and as a coach, you've got to look at you guys
01:26and say, I need us to be close the first 12 minutes.
01:31Then get to the second quarter.
01:32I need us to be close at halftime.
01:35And you've got to play this game by segment to keep it close and then say, okay,
01:40now it's our turn to win the game down the stretch.
01:43You can't let this lead get away from them like Philadelphia game one, Atlanta game six,
01:51even though that was on the road.
01:52That still was like a home game, right?
01:54Cleveland game four.
01:56Like, you've got to keep this game close and hope that you finally execute because if you
02:02let the Knicks get going and the fans get going for a team that's not been in this spot,
02:08it may become a little bit too much.
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