Jason Brough

According to both media and ticket holders yesterday, ranged from anywhere between one and two hours to get through the protected zone outside of Madison Square Garden and then actually into the arena.

The atmosphere at tip-off

And, you know, I was watching the ESPN feed yesterday.

They were talking about how electric it was in the building.

It really seemed to unnerve the Knicks, especially at the start of the game.

First four or five possessions.

I believe there was three turnovers.

They finished with 13 turnovers, which led directly to 21 San Antonio points.

And it was a quiet night from Carl Anthony Towns.

You could probably point to those two things.

Although.

Nick's conspiracy theorist will say that the refereeing in the second half very much lent itself to getting the Spurs back into the series.

The Knicks only went to the line eight times in the final 24 minutes of the second half of the game compared to, I believe, 24 minutes.

For the Spurs, Wemby, as you mentioned, was fantastic.

32 points, 8 rebounds, 6 assists.

Yes, the 7'4 player is quite the presence.

So I mentioned this yesterday when they played OKC in the Western Conference final.

Afterwards, Shea Gildress Alexander told the media, like, we really weren't prepared to deal with not just the shot blocking, but the game alteration that Wemby presents because there's a lot of stuff that doesn't show up in the box score, rebounds and block shots specifically, where he fundamentally alters what you want to do on offense.

And it was interesting because, you know, the guys that were calling the game yesterday pointed to the fact that a lot of the turnovers that the Knicks had early had to do with the fact that Wemby wasn't camped out deep in the key.

He was actually playing up higher and was preventing them,