J. Kyle Mann

If they came away from that thinking like, yeah, this is where we would like to get to...

it does sort of step to San Antonio's competency in the early rounds.

And I think if they feel confident about that, about their ability to delay playing the Thunder, it's going to give them a little bit more get-right time, not that they're going to be able to sort of like float on their backs.

And it's going to be a challenge to get through these first two rounds, but we all know that OKC is going to be the sort of beginning to end real, like it's going to test them on all fronts, it's going to test their counters.

If you do imagine and you assume the mindset of that they are playing like 40 chess and trying to game the bracket that way.

I mean, would you all agree with that?

I mean, it's like the Nuggets probably they need a little bit of a buffer to get to get as close to max strength as they can to get to when they get to the Thunder, right?

This is part what now with LeBron?

I mean, you know, the finals with the Cavs and the Warriors.

I'm trying to think beyond that.

That's the only other times they've faced.

Am I missing one in the more recent history between those two?

Yeah, it's all been coming to this point.

Everything's coming down to this.

Pushing the plunger implies that there is shit to be flushed, Rob.

I'm sorry, pyromaniac.

I didn't think of a TNT plunger before a household plunger that I use, for me personally.

No...

I don't know that it's as cut and dry that direction with the Cavs matchup as you're saying.

Because the Knicks went 2-1 in their three matchups, and both of their wins were by three points both times.