It’s really kind of crazy just how much these series have been similar to each other. This one really reminds you of how the Knicks had a hard-fought win against the Cavaliers in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals, and then just leaned on them in Game 2 until the Cavs collapsed, and the rest of the series was pretty academic after that.
So, well, let’s see them do that again. I would like that very much.
Let’s go, Knicks!
Only three more wins to go!
Winning thirteen (in a row) would cause a scene!
208 replies on “2026 NBA Playoffs NBA Finals: Knicks @ Spurs Game 2 – Time to Step on the Neck, and Apply Pressure”
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LET’S GO KNICKS
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We got everyone’s curiosity. Now let’s get their attention. Go Knicks. Let’s do this
Let’s head back to the Garden 2-0
LFGK
Let’s Do it!
Why are they sticking with the trolling music? It’s so weird.
Oh man.
I’m just nervous.
Can’t wait.
Keep pushing Wemby away from the paint. KAT stay out of foul trouble. Go up 2-0. Series ovaaaa!!!!
Can’t believe they went with that intro music again. Don’t they know it’s bad karma?
Edit: what Brian said
Let’s bring this back to the Garden up 2-0.
That’s so bush to play that music for our intros. Just small-town small-mindedness.
Keep playing that song fellas. You are about to pay for it.
I gotta admit, I find the goofy music kinda funny.
If we win tonight and go back to MSG up 2-0, we should play the Yakety Sax song for the Spurs intros.
Tonight I heard the trolling intro music as a variant of Sweet Georgia Brown and realized exactly what type of joy this team brings- being a kid and watching the Globetrotters on a Saturday afternoon at the Garden!
Keep on bringin’ the joy!
GO KNICKS!
Thought this was a class organization but maybe not
Go go go!
The Spurs seem sure this is their night. Let’s see.
Wemby telling the bench subs to hurt OKC players dispelled any notion of class from this team.
Brunson is so fucking pure.
Please, Fox, keep shooting!
As predicted, we will have 60+ FTAs combined tonight.
Not sure why they have Brunson bringing the ball up.
If Brunson gets hot EARLY, they’re REALLY fucked!
What an amazing drive by OG!
How do you go from last game’s whistle to this game’s whistle? This is so inconsistent.
OG is getting it fucking DONE!
Fuck Champagnie, seriously.
Brunson probably should have just brought that one back.
Shoots 38% from three against the league and 58% against us
The Spurs are playing like men possessed, and they’re up three points. This is all to the Knicks’ ultimate advantage.
What a five-point swing! Castle choked and then Brunson did not!
Big shot from Jalen
Keep taking fadeaway threes, Wemby!
This is fine. Please tire yourselves out early, Spurs, it’s fine.
Castle can’t hit SHIT. Harper, dude, just don’t pass to that guy.
We are losing but feels like we should be down by a lot more
3 fouls on Hart?
Edit: never mind, 2 fouls.
Josh moving too fast and refusing to shoot 🙁
Josh needs to keep shooting 3s when he’s open. He would have been set way better than that 2 he threw up.
You can feel the Spurs energy. But we’re hanging with them. Only down 4 early. This is not bad.
Spurs are playing high level D. Gotta hope they get tired, or we figure it out.
This is Philly game 3 energy. Let’s rope these dopes
Never ceases to amaze me how good a
3 point shooter OG has become. Every time he hits one I just smile and shake my head.
We’re not doing anything especially impressive so far but we’re hanging with them. We knew they would come out all fire and fury, the question is how long they can sustain that while the Knicks patiently wear them down…
I’m not surprised by their intensity, there will be waves but our guys are rock solid.
Remember the rules: stay close, defend, believe and then Brunson.
I would put Shamet here. Hart has mucked things up on offense tonight.
Really feels like we should be down by a lot more. Just gotta weather their first punch and stick with it
Mikal is a little too timid. He could have shot that 3, I thought.
I truly don’t understand their devotion to Castle. I don’t really see much from him besides some strong defense.
Bad foul, KAT.
KAT with an old KAT silly foul
Missed FT rebound into KAT foul, that’s a terrible sequence.
Dumb play by KAT
Towns not doing good things here
Why this Harper guy doesn’t play more is beyond me, but I hope it keeps up.
Ok so we aren’t going to get those fouls
Ugh Shamet, come on.
Come on, refs. There’s no way the Knicks have committed 5x as many fouls as the rugby team
KAT!
Man Harper is electric off the bounce
All this, and they’re only down 4 WITH the ball. The Knicks are going to be ahead by the end of the quarter.
Keep going!
Okay, that was legit smothering defense.
Please have Carter Bryant keep doing stuff like that. TWO POINT GAME!
I guess the Spurs will be allowed to mug them.
Hahaha, all their shooters suck!
Towns has eaten guys like Kornet for dinner his whole career
Kornet minutes should be paint porn minutes
Hack a Mitch. Come on, Mitch!
I’m really annoyed at the whistle.
Mitch says FUCK YOUR HACK-A-MITCH!
YES MITCH
Mitch says fuck you Jobu
I don’t like the Spurs being smart enough to take better shots. Be like the other teams the Knicks play that just keep chucking bad threes.
They are hitting some touch shots in the paint
Mike Brown’s been skating on his Mitch minutes mgmt. it’s time to adjust.
I’m not sure they have enough good players to do hack-a-Mitch without problems later
Spurs giving it their all. I predict burnout.
If you start hacking Mitch you’ve already lost simply from the heavy Karmic debt incurred
Brown could have kept KAT on the floor another minute. I think he was baited into pulling Mitch when Johnson pulled Wemby early.
Should try the small ball OG at center thing for a minute
I’ll take 1-2 from the line all game Mitch if you can.
Patience, Grasshopper.
Yeah this.
Taking the Spurs best punch, fans are going nuts and we’re down 5 points.
We’re fine.
This.
I’d dare them to keep it up on D for the whole game… though I don’t wanna bet on it bc they are young and athletic
You know you’re the best team, when the other team has to revert to hack-a-Mitch !!!
The Spurs are getting much better looks. It annoys me.
Jesus Brown, you can’t give away possessions like this.
Come on, Mike. Wake up.
Mitch isn’t even protecting the rim. They’ve had a layup line since he came in.
We are playing lethargic again.
Mitch needs to sit down. We won’t win if we can’t score.
Never mind!
2-2!!
The NBA should change the rule and extend the last-2-minutes rule to the whole game, it’s just so stupid…
Needed that Mitch dunk!
Mitch has scored the last four!
stop whistle hunting jalen
That was too much Mitch, and he’s not even really impacting the game on defense
I guess Brunson isn’t gonna get the SGA treatment from the refs.
Choking on the free throw shooting just like he choked in Game 1 period!
Deuce, buddy, look where you are!
Fox is the Knicks’ MVP again.
That wasn’t a backcourt
We’re not playing well but only down 9 early.
I knew letting Duece dribble for too long was gonna bite us
Spurs are grabbing and shoving on every play. League wants 1-1
One better than Game 1, and they won that won by 10, so I guess they’ll win this one by 11!
Defense wasn’t great in that quarter
Not great but I’m also not worried at all. There were like three missed free throw calls on our end because nba reffing is a shambles
That was some God awful defense by the Knicks in the 1st quarter.
This was an awful Mitch shift.
Ok we are playing stupidly.
Not sure it’s a good sign that Knickerblogger is confident 😉
Poor end to 1st. Still early and never give up on this team but 5 on 6 out there right now.
Not optimal to allow them to shoot 60%
Mike if you want to play Mitch do it now, not halfway through the quarter
That was also smothering effing defense by the Spurs guards. Brunson is furious, and trying to foul bait when he can even get off a shot, which isn’t often. And they just did it to Deuce.
The shit they’re getting away with is insane.
More importantly their pace is not sustainable.
That’s as good as it gets for the Spurs. Knicks will adjust, lock in, and wear these kids down…
If they’re going to stifle our guard play, maybe it’s time for JoKAT?
Just need to weather the storm ….
The Spurs play MMA on defense but this is not our main issue. Our defense is! They scored an easy 34 in the quarter and Wemby has only 5. You can’t win like this! Get it together on the defensive end!
Yeah, and the Knicks are not adjusting. They are being so passive on defense. Use the same physicality if that’s how the game is going to be called.
It is crazy how good of a shooter KAT is!
But we got three fouls in like 90 seconds to start the quarter, so ….
Castle, buddy, you’re not good on offense.
We’re not shooting well, they are allowed to do whatever they want on defense and we don’t, a sweep isn’t good for commercials and ratings.
That said, we’re gonna win this.
Remember the Cavs!
KAT is playing so well overall.
Funny that the broadcast contest non calls to the Spurs and almost never for us
Couldn’t Wemby just pick that ball up?
TOWNS!
Deuce is so good.
KAAAAT
Castle drew the foul, but the Knicks should have just let him brick the layup.
Can we get a foul shot
alvarado staying back to whine is crazy
KAT en fuego.
If Deuce scores that 3P, the Knicks fans would be so loud…
Hell yeah, cyber
KAT is elite. And if you wanna play playground shit, Alvy is here for it.
Just let Castle shoot each time.
This is a young and DUMB Spurs team.
We are taking some dumb shots
That’s a terrible shot, Deuce.
If Castle threw the ball in the ocean it would bounce off a buoy and land on the beach
But the refs love them so much
And it’s, like, dude, you’re really good on defense. Just concentrate on that.
Deuce and KAT with two crazy unnecessary shots, punished by the basketball gods with Fox’s and-1
WTF is this whistle, my dudes.
Fox double dribble and offensive fouls and gets the and 1 lmfao
How the hell do you not call that either way????
Haha, and then Castle made a dumb DEFENSIVE play, too!
What a gloriously dumb foul
What a huuuuuuuuuuge play by Alvarado to draw that foul. Three on Castle.
Alvie is super smart
Hella smart play by Jose there. He’s helping to keep us within arms distance while Brunson sits.
BRIDGES! Three point game!
Mikaaaaaaal
ROPE THESE MF’N DOPES
You have to love how the Spurs had had so much success driving and then they decided…nah, let me take a 12-footer instead of driving like a moron.
Fact: KAT has been the best center on the floor tonight.
Fourth series in a row I’ve said this but: We’re actually so much better than this team it’s not even funny
So good to be on the other side of the “annoying” teams that won’t go away !!! 😀
TOWNS! THAT PASS!
Castle is talented but kind of a dumbass
Keep it close!
We’re weathering this storm, yall.
I’ll fight anyone who says Kat is soft. Guy gets clobbered every time he goes near the rim, and still finds the open man.
We need a lead at halftime. That will deflate them.
Well, 4:30am here and I’m watching basketball live. You guys are the worst.
KAT best player on the court and it’s not close
Let’s end this half strong boys come on
That KAT pass was even better than his crazy assist in the Cup Final.
KAT is such a monster.
Harper is slightly smarter than the others.
KAT was soft, not anymore… this is the guy we dreamed he could be! 🙂
I don’t recall the Knicks finding KAT down low against smalls so systematically in the past.
You think he’s playing vetter than Mitch?
OG, dude, what were you thinking there?
What was that possession
Watching with my daughter and Mimi, our newly-acquired 4 year-old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. Mimi joined us today, after her prior owner passed away. She is confused by our excitement over Knicks baskets, so she has fallen asleep on the wing chair.
Today defines a “Great Day To Be A Knick Fan”.
Why is KAT on the bench right now????
2:30 here, where are you?
BRIDGES!
OG didn’t want to kick it to Josh there.
Mikal!
We are still giving up too many open shots
Harper is generally smart, but OG had good position there, that was dumb.
Watching the SkyCam, and wow, the Knicks cheers are LOUD
2pt game
That OG block. WOW.
YOU CANT TRY THAT SHIT ON OG, SON!!!!
Yeah, come on, Hart obviously fouled the dude.
Cmon Josh that’s just fucking dumb
Josh tripped Vassell
Stupid play by Josh
WTF, they just decided to review a call without a challenge.
That’s a huge momentum changer.
This could be a huge decision
This won’t go well
Smh Josh we’re only down 2. Didn’t need to pull that bs
Very stupid
It’s ok if the refs were not on the same page. You just need to don’t do that.
Israel.
KAT is basically doing everything I THOUGHT he would do when he was coming out of college, and he just, well, you know, didn’t.
But he fucking IS!
They were on track to be ahead by halftime, Josh has been truly awful.
Shit…
Yeah Josh, sometimes your brain freezes but we still love you…
This game is making me physically ill. I would cut off my arm for one of those 30-pt leads…
These refs have correctly called 100% of the Knicks fouls and about 1% of the spurs
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