Chris Mannix

You know, not to have somebody catch a stray, but I keep laughing about the Becky Hammond, like the whole commentary where Becky, you know, said so long ago that Jalen could not be the number one guy on a championship team.

And she stood on that recently, which was kind of, you know, strange.

He's just been incredible, man.

He's fun to watch.

And, you know, you know, I'm West Coast based, so I don't see the Knicks as much.

And, buddy, to watch Jalen do what he did in the fourth quarter, it was fun.

It was neat to see because it was like, oh, this dude is as advertised when it matters most.

What's been the vibe around the Spurs the last couple of days?

fine.

For a young group, they're pretty even keeled.

They're mature.

I'm always really interested how he's going to handle his voice and his messaging.

I did think it was interesting after game one that, and you know this, he kind of

wasted no time sliding in quite a few comments about your confidence.

And, you know, I'm not worried in the slightest, you know, just projecting the kind of way you would expect for a confident guy.

They seem fine.

I mean, you just hit the nail on the head when you talked about game two is the, like, let's do a pulse check if they lose game two.

You know, they're going to be fine if they split this thing at home.

And not to put you, you know, give you a homework assignment, I did wonder, because you detailed

the teams that went down 0-2 when they were on the road.