Tony's Infamous Victor Wembanyama Stat | Hour 2
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Who has had the more impressive Playoffs between the Knicks and the Spurs?
This is the Dan Levitar Show with the Stugatz Podcast.
Really interesting to see how torn everyone seems about who's going to win these two championships. You look at ESPN, they had 24 people pick Carolina-Vegas 12-12. Everybody I talk to, yeah, I kind of think the Knicks have a real good shot because if they make 18 threes and a half like they did against Philadelphia, they can beat anybody on the days that they're making all of their threes, obviously. I had a couple of quibbles with some of the stuff that Nick Wright said that I didn't get to. One of the things that he is saying while correctly talking about this stretch of Knicks basketball is, is 11 games, it's not just post-season, it's the best 11 games of basketball statistically anybody has ever played, regular season, post-season, any time, and so of course that's something that anyone is going to notice, but they are doing it against what I could argue are three worse teams than any of the ones that San Antonio just played.
I could put Portland in that conversation with the Atlantas and the Clevelands and the broken Philadelphia 76ers, but I can certainly put Minnesota and OKC as a level of opponent that is realms beyond anybody that the Knicks have beaten. Everything Nick was saying about the Knicks is correct, all right? But I look at the, like, which is more impressive? The Knicks winning 11 in a row and murdering teams, buster teams, or what San Antonio just did where they manhandled Minnesota after game one and they beat the Thunder in seven. So while they didn't put up the type of numbers the Knicks did... Isn't what Oklahoma City did more impressive? Well, this is a weird thing that I'm about to say, Zazz, which is I believe the Knicks' toughest opponent was the first one they faced.
What was the significance of Tim Payne's follower count increase?
I believe the way Atlanta was playing after the trades in the second half of the season, the way their wings are that athletic, that they're young. And you saw how that series went. Like... It was closer than the other games because Atlanta had a lot of things, youth, athleticism, that Cleveland felt like it just didn't have when James Harden was the centerpiece of too much of what they were doing. I think they broke the soul of the Cleveland Cavaliers. I think the Cavs are the best team that they've played so far. But after that 20-point up and down and all of a sudden the game is over and you're looking up the score like, how did the Knicks win? They took their soul. It was over. Let me ask you something.
Who do you think, and it doesn't have to be a team that New York played, who do you think was the second best team in the Eastern Conference playoffs? A team that played the best in the Eastern Conference playoffs. Well, played the best? Yeah, second best. The reason the question's hard to answer is because if you give me healthy Embiid who hasn't played for several months, that's a very difficult team to play.
How do injuries impact player performance in the playoffs?
But if it's all of a sudden Embiid's got to play five games in ten days and he's all broken by the end of the playoffs because his body can't withstand any of it, it makes... It makes it very hard to answer that question, especially with the way that Boston played. Because my answer would be Orlando. Like, they were up 3-1 on Detroit. They were playing great. Those games that Orlando played and was up three games to one, that was the second best performance in the Eastern Conference. And... That's who we're comparing the Knicks to against San Antonio. And you see who they had to go through in the Western Conference. That's the point I'm trying to make. I do wonder. I really do, though. The worst game the Knicks played against the Cavs was the first one.
They got a bunch of rest. Jokic has said, don't give me a lot of rest.
What are the implications of Wembanyama's shot-blocking statistics?
I want to roll through this. And so what you have happening tonight is... I think Nick's analysis on game one is that San Antonio is going to fold up because they're tired and that was a really hard series. But I think New York not playing in this long when you are a team that relies that heavily on the threes, the shooting goes.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who has had the more impressive Playoffs between the Knicks and the Spurs?
0:00–1:59
2
What was the significance of Tim Payne's follower count increase?
1:59–2:55
3
How do injuries impact player performance in the playoffs?
2:55–3:36
4
What are the implications of Wembanyama's shot-blocking statistics?
3:36–4:29
5
How does the Knicks' shooting strategy affect their playoff success?
4:29–5:13
6
What role does Mitchell Robinson play in the Knicks' defense?
5:13–5:58
7
How does social media influence athletes' public perception?
5:58–6:53
8
What humorous mistakes can occur in sports interviews?
6:53–41:37
Speakers
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