Rob Mahoney

I think a lot of it was the Spurs offense.

I think it wasn't constant.

And I don't think the Spurs are going to be that kind of team in the series at any point.

The Knicks defense is too good.

The Spurs are still too young and a little bit imprecise.

But I thought they did a great job really establishing and looking for and being patient with getting Wimby around the basket early, with being a little bit more deliberate as far as what the Knicks were giving up on the weak side, like we mentioned earlier.

And then also, like, I...

There were just moments in this game where for the first time all series, it felt like the Knicks defense was actually behind in its rotation, where the Spurs were getting ahead of it.

And you could tell the Knicks were just like a step or an entire rotation behind.

And guys were getting pretty clean, wide open shots because of the Spurs ball movement.

That felt really new.

And that's the kind of thing where sometimes over the course of a series, you just pick up on the patterns, right?

Of like how teams are defending, how they're rotating, what they're giving up.

I think the Spurs might be a little more in tune with that right now.

But even that stuff can change pretty quickly.

And some of the castles, too.

They're giving all three of those guards a lot of room to fire if they want to.

They went from the Oracle Warriors to the VC Warriors pretty quickly.

Pretty quickly.

Very different energy.