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Chapter 1: What happened in Game 1 of the NBA Finals between the Knicks and Spurs?
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Chapter 2: How did Jalen Brunson perform and what is his impact on the Knicks?
It felt a little too, you know, like think analytic dependent. Yes, Marvin.
And another thing was, I thought somebody like Jose Alvarado had a really big end of the first half.
When Brunson got hurt with that knee injury, when Harrison Barnes went into his knee and he came in to sub in, he came up big. He had like seven points. And if you get seven points from Jose Alvarado, that's huge. Landry Schammett, 13 points. If you get 20 points out of those guys, that is huge because you're not expecting that from them.
Yeah, Knicks fans have reminded me, didn't you say the Knicks didn't have a great bench yet? You're right, I did. But they did last night. And we talked about this. There is something about this team, and it is a team. It is a team. When I talk about Spurs, I usually just talked about Victor Wimbenyama. With the Knicks, yes, it's Brunson heavy, but it is a true team. OG and Inouye.
Like, you're going to ask these guys to just give me something. And it might be your defense against Wimby. It might be, you know, give me five minutes. Come in and spell this guy. Whatever it is. The Knicks will play better, but the Spurs better play better. Yeah, Paulie.
The other thing I was wondering, you mentioned this before, not playing Dylan Harper much in the fourth quarter. Do you think that's some type of analytics play where you stick to the plan that got you where you are now?
I hope not. It felt like it. Yeah. Analytics people ignore their gut, I would assume. I believe so. I don't like that at all. I think there's just a feeling sometimes. You've been at a game, or maybe you've been in a game, where all of a sudden you just go, it's my night, or it's not my night. It's not our night, and you might have to disrupt that.
But it felt like Dylan Harper was the best player on the floor for a little while there, and then all of a sudden he didn't get to play. Yes, Todd. And analytics often, to me, speak to normally in this situation or generally or usually. There's no definites, even with numbers. So there is room for gut instinct as far as what you're saying.
It's an off night or I just have a feeling this guy should be playing more minutes or this one needs to come out.
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Chapter 3: What are the key issues faced by Victor Wembanyama and the Spurs?
Because you've already got the split here in San Antonio. Now you're five-and-a-half-point underdogs coming up in game two, which doesn't matter to the Knicks, but I'm just saying this for the betting crowd. You've already gotten what you wanted to get here. Now you go for the jugular. Now you go, hey, you know what? Let's push them even harder this time around.
If not, you go back to the Garden, and the Garden is going to be waiting. I think that'll be an interesting element here of the aggression, you know, the Spurs. I don't know where you get your energy from. If you don't have it in Game 1, where are you getting it in Game 2? Yes, Dylan.
Yeah, and the Knicks are basically playing with house money. You go into San Antonio as underdogs, win a slugfest in game one, and it's like whatever happens next game, if they lose, we're back to square one.
What are the other poll questions?
Paulie sent one over. If you need a two to win a playoff game, who are you taking? Jalen Brunson, Shea Gilgis-Alexander, Luka Doncic, or other?
Well, it's going to be recency bias. I would take Brunson because I've seen it happen late in games. And if you're talking about, hey, you're taking a two here, well, I'm assuming we're not talking about the first three quarters. We're talking about late in the game. Brunson gets his shot, and he's got every shot. Now, I know Luka has every shot.
Shea Gilgis, not necessarily a great three-point shooter. There's a lot of guys who can get points, get buckets. But I've seen Brunson do this at a very high level. And I would take him. He has this innate ability. And I talked to Reggie Miller about this. It's you've got to know angles. And Paulie and I talk about Chris Paul. Chris Paul wasn't really that athletic. He wasn't big.
He wasn't strong. He wasn't quick. Not a jumper. He just floated, and he looked for the angle. He looked for his spot. And that's what Brunson does. Steve Nash used to do this. Nash would go underneath the basket, you know, like Gretzky would get behind the net and then feed his teammates. Steve Nash would just kind of roam. And then they'd look for their moment. And that's what Brunson does.
It's, I need to get to that spot. Or if I don't get there, I can get there. He always has a plan B, and I think that's the beauty of seeing creative scores. And he is truly a creative score because he has to be. It's not like he can go, I'm Durant, I'm 7 foot, and I'm 7'9 wingspan. See if you can get my shot. Brunson's not a big guy. Yeah, still. Durant, though.
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Chapter 4: What insights does Chris Haynes provide about the Knicks' strategy?
All right. Tweet that. And on threads as well. Okay. I am done now, DP. All right. You were saying?
I was trying to figure out kind of, you know, we love to do this. Did the Spurs lose? Did the Knicks win it? And I give credit to the Knicks here. I think the Spurs look tired fourth quarter. Wemby settling for threes, not getting inside. I thought Carl Anthony Towns played great, Josh Hart.
So your takeaway from this, if you're the Spurs right now, your takeaway from what went wrong and how to fix it is what?
DP, I hate to go to this because it's so easy to go to this, but it's the constant reality. It's a trend at this point. When Wimby goes 6 of 21, 7 of 20, Five of 17. The Spurs lose. Simple. Simple as that. And I'm not putting it all on Wimby because obviously De'Aaron Fox is out there. He's been struggling ever since. He's still dealing with that bummed ankle.
But when Wimby is efficient and not settling for that outside jump shot, DP, 42% of his shot attempts were three-pointers.
Yeah.
He was 6-21 from the field, 2-9 from three. That's playing right into the Knicks' hands. Obviously, you know the Knicks are going to be physical. They want to play physical basketball with whoever's guarding Wimby. And at a certain point, Wimby is going to have to adapt to that and understand that, yes, while his skill set, while he can do everything on the court,
You have to understand that at certain times of the game, it may cause for you to impose your will. And I know, you know, physically he's just not at that point right now. But the one thing that he has that nobody else has is seven foot height, seven foot five height. And a lot of times he doesn't use that to his advantage. But he's going to need help elsewhere as well.
But I think that's the constant trend, DP, when he's ā A guy that size can't continue having too many of these terrible shoot nights. It can't be 6-21. We're not used to seeing guys of that size struggle like that from the field too often.
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