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Chapter 1: What made Game 3 of the NBA Finals so interesting?
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Chapter 2: How did Victor Wembanyama perform in Game 3?
And, you know, Brunson not being able to do it. OG missing, and then the board where Shamit got a board. Excuse me, OG missing, Shamit got a board, and he went in and out. The turnover by Brunson. Brunson missed a pull-up jumper, and Cat missed the three. Cat couldn't come through in the fourth quarter.
Well, on the other side, yeah, you see a castle bailout of the tug and war possession, I thought. That's what that was. It was just Cat and Wemby. Tug, war, tug, war. Okay, somebody do something. And castle, huge three to bail them out. They just got baskets at the end of this thing. All season long, including these playoffs, the Knicks have been very, very good at taking care of the ball.
Like, really good, not allowing their opponents to capitalize by any means on these miscues. That wasn't the case in Game 3. When you look at the turnovers last night, New York had 13 turnovers, which translated to 21 Spurs points. And five of their six turnovers... like early ones were just like throwing the ball away. Yeah.
Like to start the game, two of their first three possessions, I guess in the first half and the third quarter, they're just throwing it away for the most part. Like there's like, I don't know if it was the, the nerves and the amped up, uh, MSG. I don't know what it was, but it was, it was sloppy. And we hadn't seen that from them. Cause you had bridges, throw it away, heart, throw it away.
McBride threw it away. Clarkson threw it away. Continued in the second half. Cat chucked one out of bounds, trying to like force one to Brunson. Wasn't there. Brunson threw into Jay-Z. Like, You know, good Spurs defense. Don't get me wrong. But these were like, what are you doing? This has not been the Knicks MO all playoffs long. And this was a huge part from game three and the Spurs winning.
Absolutely. The Spurs were in transition for a lot of the night. Sometimes I thought a little too happy to get in transition. We're like pushing into one on fours for no reason. But it definitely felt to me like New York felt the pressure a lot more than San Antonio did.
Yeah.
From the beginning. You're talking about the first quarter. It was pretty brutal from the Knicks. They got back into it with their massive second quarter, but in general, they looked a little tighter, I thought, than San Antonio. I thought San Antonio accomplished what they set out to do in this game on both ends of the court.
The way they were attacking offensively, the way they were able to take Towns out of the game on the defensive end, whereas... the Knicks were just hoping it was a close game at the end and assuming Brunson's going to get us over the edge. And he just wasn't able to.
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Chapter 3: What were the standout moments from the Spurs' defense?
And you're just not going to draw as many fouls when that's the case. Yeah, I think. If they had a better effort level on the defensive end, where they're a little more scrappy to start the game, it would have been different. They just didn't have the effort level, I don't think, in general. They could definitely complain about some, as you mentioned, Trey.
Also, the Julian Champagny gets a flagrant foul called because Jalen Brunson's sort of in his landing area, which I thought was lame because he kicked... Samuel Champagny kicked his leg out to land. I mean, that was just... It was weird because Brunson's leg was almost turned around looking back at the basket, too. I mean, they were confused on the broadcast. They were wrong on that one.
They were like, no way that's going to be called the flagrant. But it was sort of his landing area. But he was also kicking his leg out. I mean, there was a champagne smile on the floor because he knew what he was doing. He kicked his... That wasn't a landing area. I don't think it was... I thought that one was fine. I think overall... Yeah, but it was a fabricated area.
He just kind of kicked his leg out. He doesn't shoot like that. It's already up. Here we go.
Chapter 4: How did the Spurs' offensive strategy change in Game 3?
Here's my foot a foot away. It doesn't make any sense to me. What's strange is that he didn't land on, like Leg said it, you usually land on the other guy's foot when he's too close in your landing spot. But he actually landed on Brunson's heel, I guess, because again, Brunson's head turned around. So it just was very strange. It's also a kick slash land, but yeah. Yeah.
Anyway.
Nonetheless, Wemby did the exact same thing in the corner. The play is the exact same. Hart lands on his calf, not on his foot. That could have been a flagrant that way. I don't think it was a well-officiated game, but I don't think it was super one-sided. I just think it was very inconsistent, the way they called this game.
They sort of like, especially in the second half, it felt like, all right, we're going to start calling sort of everything. This game started to bog down, and we got a million, obviously, challenges, too. I think Knicks fans are pissed about that, right? It's like every challenge the Knicks had to do They ended up being right. So the call was like incorrectly called.
And then of course we had to go look at it and replay it. And then usually we'd go back. So yeah.
Mark Davis kept it tight though. The video reviews.
They were fairly quick. Yes. I did not like when Mark Davis said Wemby on the review. He literally said Wemby. Yeah. You should only be able to call them by their full names. Okay, so you can't say Cat then.
No, of course not.
Gilgis Alexander. I don't want to hear Shea. I don't want to hear SGA. You should only be able to say their full last names. Fair enough. We don't want them to be friendly with the players.
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Chapter 5: What role did turnovers play in the game outcome?
Gotta show you the jacket this guy had on last night while he was eating french fries. And the Stalin and Profiling hat, which I think you can buy, but... Look at that jacket. I mean, even for Clyde, that's next level, man. That's insane. I liked Mike Breen quoting Clyde at the free throw line. I think it was Dylan Harper was shooting free throws.
He's like, Clyde Frazier would call him a precocious neophyte. Cut straight to this scene of Clyde eating a french fry sideways. Yeah, that was a weird thing. That was my note.
What is he doing?
Because it's one fry stuck to the other fry, but he doesn't just go at the top. He has the one that's stuck to the back sort of, so he kind of turns it and eats the little one. Landscape mode.
I was surprised.
Still cool, man. He's still cool. He is cool. uh we had a great um coach face is the best way to put it from sean sweeney uh this expression or he's barking out order we'll loop it a couple times for everybody on youtube now this is gonna be your new orlando magic head coach so get ready for this magic what a great look though great scrunch face i thought yeah nice scowl
I do want to know one random thing. Wemby, after the game, he went into the hallway. He was done. Yeah. But then they had to bring him on back. Called him back. Here's the hook. Come on back. You got to do your postgame interview. And he came out. He didn't fight. He didn't argue. He didn't say, I'm done. He was like, all right. He turned. He was gone. He was cheering.
He took out his mouth guard. He was just happy. He was done. He was celebrating. And then, you know, you could see him have to turn around and have to go out there. So that's all. He did it. He didn't.
love the interview no it was pretty curt but uh um the funny part from that interview is the next random note it's lisa salters trust me it's her interviewing wemby this was went viral last night she is not a not a tall woman and uh wemby is a giant so but yeah what are you gonna do it just looks so good yeah
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Chapter 6: How did the officiating affect the game?
Like he did it on the Shamit block. Like right after he was like, yes. Yep. You know he's in a good flow when he's like fist pumping. Yeah. An out-of-bounds call. Yeah. Nice. Art ball. He must have watched Project Hail Mary, right? With the alien, you know. Fist my bum. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I bet he did watch Project Hail Mary. I bet he read the book. He probably did read the book.
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I think the Timberwolves were in need of a rebrand and they went for an awesome one, just basically bringing everything back. But in a sort of like modern retro way, which I think is kind of the sweet spot for a lot of NBA fans at this point. Like I think of the Bucks as a perfect rebrand to like something that looks like it could have been in the 70s, but it actually is in the 2000s.
This looks like it could be in the 90s or the 2000s and it's in the 2020s. There's something a little uncanny valley to me about these where I look at it. I'm like, that looks exactly like a Timberwolves jersey, but not quite. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's the blue. And the teal, maybe. Those blue accents, for sure, around the wolves. The blue accents are a little different.
The green is a little bit of a different color, kind of referencing the...
more neon version that they've been wearing lately but in general i think these look really really good same yeah yeah the blue and the teal kind of looks a little odd to me but i'm a blue man that's why i put on a blue hat today happy with that happy to go on back to that wolf you get on the profile and you know it kind of looks like a sad wolf in a way like he looks a little sad as he's howling this wolf looks sad a little bit a little bit howling
maybe that's just how I'm reading it but it's great to get back to that one it's not nostalgia I think it's just better than what they've had
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