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Chapter 1: What are Amin's thoughts on the recent Spurs performance?
Start of the day, start of the day, it is the start of the day.
Zazz, I want to know which of these stats, these four stats, do you believe is the best of all of the stats I'm about to give you? The Spurs led by 12 plus points in every game and led or were tied in the final two minutes of every game. 12 points separated the Knicks and the Spurs. 12 points. It's the closest NBA Finals there's ever been, and it was decided in five games.
The Knicks lost three times by a combined six points in the postseason. One of the most dominant runs through a postseason there's ever been. And the rest of the NBA, when down 15-plus points this postseason, was 6-58. The Knicks were 3-1.
It was so much you gave me there. I don't know how I'm supposed to remember all of that, but I think the third one that you gave me, which was the Knicks, just three losses by a combined six total points this postseason. I think that's my favorite.
It's one of the greatest runs we've ever seen, punctuated by one of the most confusing finals you will ever see because of what I gave you at the front end of that, which is the Spurs were up 12-plus in every game, and in the last two minutes of every single game, were either leading or tied, and they lost in five.
I mean, I'll tell you how it happens.
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Chapter 2: Why does Amin believe the Knicks had a unique postseason?
It's sometimes not that complicated. Number one, your star player was terrible. in the fourth quarter and with the game on the line the whole series your veteran point guard who's got the ball in his hands was terrible in the fourth quarter all series long and your head coach your young head coach was terrible decision making with the game on the line
Wemby's net rating in the finals. In the first quarter, he was plus 43.1, which is crazy. In the second quarter, he's minus 11.3. Third quarter, minus 4.1. Fourth quarter, minus 14.3. Just a disaster late in games.
Amin has been texting me all weekend saying that his capitulation Monday, he is telling everyone who will listen that he was right, even though he said that the OKC Thunder were inevitable. I think the Thunder are going to destroy them. So, Amin, where are you today on everything that happened over the weekend before we get to your weekend observations?
Well, I'm exactly where I thought I'd be, which is correct. And you guys are such losers. You put my Thunder prediction inside your parade of gas bags, even though I had nothing to do with it.
Chapter 3: What factors contributed to the Spurs' surprising NBA Finals outcome?
Because, again, the Thunder lost two of their three ball handlers, and that explains things. That's how things happen in the world. When we say something's going to happen, we're assuming... regular conditions. I'm not saying, Hey, this, this day at the beach is going to be awesome. And then a hurricane comes unexpectedly. So I thought you said it'd be awesome. Oh yeah.
I didn't expect a hurricane to happen. So it's all right. It's okay. I understand that you can't say, damn, I mean, you were right. And just leave it at that. You have to kind of find a way around like, to undercut it one way or another.
Chapter 4: How does Amin evaluate the performance of Wembanyama in the finals?
But there's two things. One is I told you that young teams, I don't care how talented they are, they run into the pain of experience at some point. And two, you lumped me in and said, oh, Amin said that a small guard could never. I never said that. I was never on the Jalen Brunson's too small to win a championship train. Do not put that on me. I never said that.
I never said, well, the championship is this Western Conference Finals. I never said that either.
Where are you on Brunson and how we're going to have to rewrite some of our impressions of him? Because the Immortals don't get to sneak up on you.
I mean, there have been Immortals that have sneaked up on us, though. Snuck. Was that me? Snuck.
Chapter 5: What insights does Amin share about the Thunder's playoff predictions?
Did you guys hear that echo? Nope. Okay. Just hearing some conversation somewhere in the background. But, no, Jokic was a second-round pick. You can't hear that? It sounds like people are having a conversation. You're doing a bit. That's why I know it's not like a video playing in my background.
It's just you. None of us can hear that. In fact, let's put Amin down for a second.
Jokic was a second-round pick, and nobody thought he was going to be what he was. And he snuck up on us, to use your term, snuck. You know, there have been guys before.
Chapter 6: How does Amin describe the atmosphere during the New York celebrations?
But, yeah, Brunson is special because of the gas bag montage, right? Because at the time of the signing, there were a lot of people who didn't understand it. And I won't say that I was one of those people who didn't understand it, but I also won't say that, oh, I knew he'd lead them to a championship. I thought he was a pretty good player, and that was a smart use of their money at the time.
I mean, the reason that Jokic is different is because you're talking. Now I can't hear anything. You're talking.
Now Dan's talking. I see his lips moving, but I can't hear anything.
All right, put him down, please, so that I can come back to him when we've got functioning audio. Thanks. That's the way to go on that one. The reason that Jokic is different is because Jokic was somebody who was drafted in the second round, but he wasn't doubted when he got to the finals. He wasn't doubted deep into the playoffs. Can this person win?
Chapter 7: What are Amin's World Cup observations and highlights?
Was that year his first MVP?
The year that he won the championship, he wasn't doubted. We knew how great that player was. The part of it that was surprising was the front end. Of course, you don't normally get a guy drafted in the second round in that sport who turns into an all-time great.
But I believe that this Knicks team was doubted throughout, and I believe Brunson was doubted throughout, at least in part because of the history of you can't win with someone that small as your best player.
To your point, Jokic, before winning the NBA championship, was already a two-time MVP.
That wasn't what we just experienced. What we just experienced has no precedent that I can recall in the history of the sport, honest to God, where a guy who empirically without question, is a killer in the fourth quarter. Like, you can measure it. Is it an overreaction for me to say, I mean, second most clutch player we have ever seen? I know people are hyperventilating.
I know there's a prisoner of the moment. I know emotion gets involved.
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Chapter 8: What is Amin's perspective on the upcoming World Cup teams?
But numerically... This person can score no matter what's happening in the fourth quarter and has done it now for four straight seasons in a way that doubles up the MVPs. Shea and Jokic have done less close and late by half than what Brunson's done the last three years of the playoffs.
Yeah, I mean, I think it's tough to say anything unless you felt like that before this run. You can't say now this run makes him the second most clutch ever. If you said that before, if you said, oh, he was third before, now he's second, I'm with you. But you can't come from unranked on your most clutch of all time to second behind Michael Jordan.
He's unranked as best player in the game. He never gets in that conversation. Never.
Never. I don't think he's the best player in the game. I think he's an amazing player, and I think he had an amazing playoffs and amazing finals, obviously, and he deserves all the kudos. I heard you earlier say he's better than Allen Iverson. I think in order to be Allen Iverson, you've got to put together a career of that, right? Allen Iverson had a career –
of all of those moments and Brunson has had as we said four years of it which is again nothing to say that it won't continue if it continues sure but at this point I couldn't put him above you don't put him above Iverson because of the efficiencies no because again the game was a different game for one in terms of how the game was played how the game was looked at number two I think Iverson played on a team where he had to shoot like that he had to play like that
This team that Brunson plays on, he's got Carl Anthony Townsend, many of us have called the best shooting big man of all time. Zach Harper says he's one of the best shooters in the league, period. Let's not qualify as big man. He's got O.G. Ananobi, obviously he's a great talent. He's got a talented team. Iverson was playing with Eric Snow and Dikembe Mutombo, Tyrone Hill and George Lynch.
Aaron McKee. Aaron McKee. Aaron McKee, Phillies home, Aaron McKee. So none of those guys were really offensive juggernauts or guys that go out on any given night can give you 30. Iverson had to play that way for that team to have a chance.
I want to play some sound here of a CNN reporter getting engulfed in the streets of New York here. I don't know whether Amin has gotten to feel the flavor of New York here in the last couple of days, but look at what is happening in the streets here as this CNN reporter tries to stay calm.
You saw everything.
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