Alex Schiffer

I'll be in a pickle then because I don't want Kansas to lose and then have to play a third game.

Yeah, I'd say going into the series, I genuinely felt 50-50 about it.

I can make a case for the Knicks and for the Spurs.

I thought the Knicks looked really good in game one down the stretch.

I thought Victor Wiminyama and the Spurs looked honestly fatigued.

And, you know, I think that that's going to be an interesting thing to watch going forward just given that the Knicks have been well-rested every series and the Spurs have had some long playoff series and maybe it's finally catching up to them.

I don't think so.

I think the line I've been using with people since game one ended was that I thought the Spurs punched first and they had control for, you know, the first two and a half quarters or so.

And then the Knicks punched back towards the end of the third quarter and the Spurs didn't have a counterpunch in them by that point.

And –

You know, the Spurs are doing something basically unprecedented.

We've never seen a team basically built on a core of no playoff experience go this far on their first shot.

And I continue to wonder, because of how historic that is for Ren, if the lack of experience catches up with them at some point, and maybe this is it.

But I also think that because they've gotten this far, they've proven...

that they can be quick learners and make up for the curve they're on rather quickly.

So I think that tonight it wouldn't shock me if we go to New York Tide 1-1.

Yeah, I don't know if marathon is the best metaphor.

I'm trying to think of, you know, the game one for the finals reminded me a lot of game one for the Knicks in the conference finals, right, where Cleveland was whooping them.

And then the Knicks woke up and did their thing.

And that's what I thought this game reminded me a lot of.