00:00Because what you're saying is experience is playing a factor.
00:03How much do you look at that where you see the Knicks a couple years ago?
00:07I mean, Rick, two years ago, they made it to the second round.
00:11Last year, they made it to the NBA Eastern Conference Finals.
00:15This year, they're in the finals.
00:16Is this really just about learning how to win for the Spurs?
00:21Yeah.
00:22I mean, if this team stays together,
00:24they're going to be a heck of a basketball team for a long time to come.
00:27And also the same thing using your personnel.
00:29Anyway, I think Mike Brown has done a great job.
00:31Mike knew guys were struggling.
00:32Mike went deeper into his rotation.
00:34You guys that hardly ever got a chance to play who came up,
00:36did a great job, helped him get back into the game.
00:39Harrison Barnes is sitting on the bench for you on the Spurs, right?
00:43Who's an experienced player with, you know, pedigree with the Warriors and stuff.
00:48And he's got one of his guys, and I always mispronounce his name.
00:50It's kind of like, you know, the French name, whatever the hell it was.
00:53Anyway, he was zero for seven.
00:55Zero for seven.
00:56What, the Montague, whatever the hell his name is?
00:58And why would you not take him out of the game in that situation
01:02where you've got the big lead and put an experienced player in there
01:06to be able to do the right things?
01:08I don't understand that.
01:10I mean, you have to trust your players.
01:12And you've got a guy of that quality sitting on your bench.
01:16Use him.
01:19Rick, don't you agree?
01:21The Spurs are a more talented team than the Knicks.
01:24How are they up 3-1?
01:29Well, they should be up 3-1, the Spurs.
01:32I mean, because they just did silly things.
01:34You know, Wemby throws the ball at a teammate, not looking, hits him in the back,
01:38and winds up then fouling, you know, fouling and giving up two points to Brunson.
01:44I mean, that cost him a game.
01:45And then why in the world with the players they have on his team?
01:48I don't want Wemby shooting a 20-foot jump shot to win the game for me.
01:53I mean, I just think that they have made poor decisions how to utilize their personnel.
01:59If I'm guarding Wemby, there's no way Wemby's going to spend as much time as he spends with the Spurs
02:04now
02:0520 to 25 feet from the freaking basket.
02:08This guy needs to be on the block.
02:09He's got a guy that's 6'3", 4", whatever, guarding him sometime.
02:13Put him in the post.
02:14Throw him the high ball.
02:15Force them to come and double-team him.
02:17And now Wemby can throw over anybody.
02:19Now you've got guys who are your good three-point shooters out there.
02:23They're set.
02:24They've got their feet there.
02:25Nobody's challenged again.
02:26They're going to get so many great open looks.
02:28I just don't like the way that they run their offense with a guy like Wemby on that team.
02:34How do you think he's playing, Rick?
02:37Wem and Yamba.
02:38Well, he's a great – he's a hell of a player.
02:40But I just don't – I don't think you want him out there shooting – what did he go,
02:43two for eight from three-point range?
02:44There's no way you want him out there shooting three-point shots.
02:47Occasionally to stretch it, yes, just like the Joker.
02:50The Joker, who I love, the Joker gets inside.
02:53The Joker can pass.
02:54Wemby can pass.
02:54Use him.
02:55Bring him to the high post.
02:56Post.
02:56Run some other stuff and do it.
02:57But, you know, 20 – he's 20, 25 feet from the basket so often.
03:01And when he goes inside, then he's virtually unstoppable.
03:05So why would you not have a seven-foot guy with his talent playing inside?
03:09He has to certainly be in the paint.
03:10That's great.
03:11Okay.
03:11All right.
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