A Spurs Fumble, CarusoMania, Brunson’s Mega-Rise and a Knicks Appreciation With Tim Legler and Brian Koppelman
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All right. The Bill Simmons podcast. We are live after game five. Our friend Tim Legler is here. Kind of a ghostly massage here for him. It's like, yeah.
Definitely, man. It's my queen album cover look. I like it.
Well, matching the weirdness we just had, I think it's kind of fitting because it feels like, I don't know if the Spurs can beat OKC 2-0. We have a lot to discuss. Wanted to mention, I have new rewatchables coming that came out on Monday. We did Animal House. You must love Animal House. That must have been one of the years from way back when. But you can catch that. And you can hear Legs. What's the name of your podcast? The All Things Podcast?
All City. All City Podcast. I'm blanking.
Yeah, yeah. And, of course, you can see Legs on the finals, which are coming up. All right. Game five. Here's my big takeaway. Just a missed opportunity for the Spurs. Oh, yeah. I felt like, you know, it's 2-2. A.J. Mitchell gets scrapped. Jalen Williams gets scratched pretty much like an hour before the game, although I feel like we were expecting a little bit. And then SGA comes out and was really bad for the first six minutes of the game. He said after the game, he said that was like the worst first quarter he's had in his career. He's probably exaggerating. And the Spurs, I just never really felt the urgency. They showed that one halftime speech when it was like 87-71, whatever it was. They're down 16.
And Wemby's got the guys around. And then they came out and played with some passion for, I don't know, four minutes. But I don't know, man. Did they think this was a 19-game series? What's going on with them?
Here's what I think, a couple of things. I think, first of all, you're right about the opportunity. Listen, you've got to win another game there to win the series, right? And so you look at this situation, you don't have Jalen Williams, you don't have A.J. Mitchell. It's like their first game, they're going to get them kind of like... wow, this is a lot of pressure on us here because if we don't win this game, we're going to have to go to San Antonio with the prospect of being closed out. It's an awful lot of pressure on the home team in a 2-2 situation. And you're missing a couple of guys. So some guys are going to have to step up. So you would think like San Antonio's... approach to be like, this is a game not only that we can get, we have to get.
That's kind of how I think their approach should have been going in. They probably felt that way. They just didn't play well enough in this situation to get it done. And I think one of the things that jumps out right away is You look at Victor Wimbonyama, and a lot was being talked about during the game that he's kind of quiet, passive, didn't get a lot of shots, didn't get a lot of touches where he wants it. He had some free throws, so his numbers weren't horrific early. But the thing that I'm thinking about while I'm watching that, Bill, is this. When you look at the other... top guys in his league. Just go with, like, the all-NBA team, if you want to, and even guys on the second team. Like, those are guys, because of the nature of their game, like, physically, you know, their dimensions, they can get theirs when they want to get theirs a lot of times.
That's not always the case for Victor Webinyama, and it's not going to be.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is discussed at the start of this section?
0:06–7:44
2
What were the key takeaways from Game 5?
7:44–37:52
3
What impact does Jalen Brunson have on the Knicks?
37:52–50:48
4
What are the key attributes of Jalen Brunson that make him a standout player?
50:48–52:26
5
How did the Knicks transform into a selfless, cohesive team during the playoffs?
52:26–54:09
6
What factors contributed to the Knicks' success this season?
54:09–55:39
7
How do the Knicks' current players compare to past legends?
55:39–1:41:54
Speakers
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