00:00and I am shocked I did not see uh the Knicks winning the first two games of this series I
00:05I thought this would be a close series I'm having a hard time now making a case for the Spurs
00:11here
00:12they gotta feel I would say the last 48 hours a little demoralized Gilbert they gotta feel that
00:17way they're gonna have to use the energy against them in order to win tonight in New York my gosh
00:23this is uh it's it's do or die tonight no make no mistake about it absolutely Craig you know
00:29you think about some of the energy that you talked about feeling demoralized and probably
00:32motivated as well I think that the Spurs probably feel that they could have had each of the last two
00:39games both game one and game two especially game two where they had an opportunity to win at the
00:44end of it and made some critical mistakes that led to the Knicks getting the win so the one thing
00:49you
00:49talk about is going to be a raucous environment at Madison Square Garden their first finals game
00:54this century a lot of energy is going to be in that building tonight but will that energy
00:58fuel the Knicks or will it provide a little bit of pressure for them to perform to a certain
01:03level with that crowd there so can the Spurs respond and learn from what went wrong in games
01:07one and two and be prepared because they really do have to lock in to get a win in this
01:12environment
01:12all right so so let's get to a couple of the key contributors certainly Brunson has come through
01:17in the end his stats don't look great overall but really the key to the last game for the Knicks
01:22was
01:22Carl Anthony Towns who had 21 points on 13 rebounds but also went 8 of 12 from the field we
01:28know that
01:29he is the Knicks number two option but he's certainly playing above it right now he's been playing like a
01:35number one and we talked last week and we looked at the odds for him to win finals MVP and
01:39they have
01:40changed and shifted drastically since we had that conversation so hopefully people got in on that when
01:45they had an opportunity to and it was of great value but Carl Anthony Towns has been great he has
01:50gone right at Victor Wimbanyama he's matched up well with Victor Wimbanyama he's made Wimbanyama
01:54uncomfortable in this series and when you talk about Wimby being the best player in this series
01:59Carl Anthony Towns has to the best of his ability neutralized that threat that Spurs have that gave
02:04them an advantage coming into this series so when you think about why the Knicks are up 2-0 it's
02:10because
02:10of Carl Anthony Towns
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