Ben Taylor

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4,322 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 5 Jul

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Thinking Basketball · #381: Thoughts on the Knicks title & the Spurs run · 17 Jun 2026 podcast

Yeah, honorable mention.

I just want to clarify that.

It's not like we just punted Steph Castle into the sun.

uh for the regular season but yes uh and i'm so glad by the way i did i did double check it that common opponent defensive rating the spurs are number one all time just ahead of the 1996 chicago bulls uh that's not too shabby oh okay so you just need you need a harper on your team to to be able to pull it off that must be the secret to having the best defense you either need ben wallace or you need the descendant of ron harper

Touché.

Very well played.

But I'm so glad you got to Josh Hart there, because Josh Hart, as the Knicks' fifth starter, I just think has always been such an interesting complementary piece, precisely because he's so different.

than the other players.

And because when you look at this series, this was a series that will probably go down in history as feeling lopsided because of the fact that the Spurs were so young, because of the reactions to the series.

And it's going to be, look, there's almost only two ways this can go long term.

One is Victor Wembanyama gets close and he can't quite ever get over the hump.

And this was his best chance, but he was too immature and he was too young and he didn't have the reps and he didn't have the counters and all this stuff.

And he, all the other insane things that people are saying.

And then the other direction is that they actually win.

And so this is the, you know, the battle toughness that he needed to go through.

This is the, these are the lessons he needed to learn and the gauntlet that everyone has to go through in NBA history is

in order to succeed.

And I think both ways, Cody sort of will probably drown out how freakishly close the series was like freakishly, like the Spurs led 70% of the time or something in the series.

And you might think that means the Knicks led 30% of the time, but there are ties.

So the Knicks actually led, I don't know if that stat has changed, but the other day it was something like the Knicks had led for 27% of the entire series.

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