Nick Wright

And so, credit to the Spurs.

I want to say this on the front end.

I think the snap analysis that I'm seeing from people...

whether it be just Twitter takes or clips from TV shows or podcasts I'm seeing from people this morning, I think is misguided.

The two most popular opinions I'm seeing, I disagree vehemently with both of them.

The first one is the whining about the officiating.

Listen, and Mike Brown, while saying repeatedly that the Knicks needed to be better, blamed, you know,

was very critical of the refs.

I did not think that was an excellently officiated game.

I also think Knicks fans blaming the officiating for that loss are misguided.

And what I think is actually happening is game two was a wildly

poorly officiated game, and it slanted massively to the Spurs.

The Knicks won anyway.

And I think because that game felt like it was an 80-20 officiated game in the Spurs' favor, this game being a 55-45 officiated game in the Spurs' favor feels more unfair because it feels compounding.

I understand that.

And it is frustrating that the Knicks keep having to challenge Coles

They win the challenge, and then they're out of challenges, and then they could have challenged Carl Anthony Towns when he got smacked on the arm, but they scored on that possession anyway.

That's a separate thing and we'll get to that.

And that was just a miss.

Like the refs just weren't looking.