Wemby had only THREE total field goals made in the restricted area. One was the blow-by on Mitch, one was an offensive rebound putback, and the only other one was the one he really could’ve been called for an offensive foul for putting his shoulder into KAT. He didn’t score in the restricted area until the end of the third quarter – that HAS to be a first in his whole career, no? Sure they fouled him a number of times before alley-oops, but FTs don’t move the crowd and momentum quite the same way.

Gotta see the yin and the yang to and fro, and the thesis and anthesis synthesize a bit more, to get a full read.

Also: remember when KAT couldn’t drive past Bagley in November or December. I think we can confidently say he was injured.

This is a wonderful day, but we need to be ready to take the Spurs next punch. I don’t think Wemby on KAT is going to last and if Mitch Johnson has any sense he would bench Fox for Harper. Both of those moves would change the dynamic of the next few games, though I trust our guys to figure out those looks as well. Isn’t it beautiful to trust?

And the Knicks have Jalen.

Just get to a close game in the 4th and I like our chances.

mea culpa here – at some point this season I think I must’ve had some sort of a psychotic break and suggested that the Knicks should trade KAT straight up for Lebron. No one ever let me anywhere near any basketball decision-making role.

KAT was absolutely fantastic — a beast on the glass, gave them just enough offense against Wemby when Wemby was snuffing everything else out, made some really nice passes (sweet cut by Shamet and great find by KAT).

Josh Hart just teleports to contested rebounds. I do not know how it is possible that he gets some of these over dudes way bigger than he is.

Huge minutes by Alvarado.

We are really uniquely set up to defend this Spurs team with 3 legitimate Wemby defenders, our 3 wings, and with Fox not himself, the Spurs don’t have the lightning quick guard that our defenders have trouble with.

Meanwhile, I still do not understand why Mitch Johnson didn’t put Wemby on Hart more.

the Spurs are not the Cavs or Sixers

The Cavs were much better in game 1 against us than the Spurs were. They were on the road, and we had to be perfect in the 4Q. The spurs were at home, and we didn’t even shoot well last night.

At some point people are going to have to stop acting like these teams we beat suck just bc we beat them.

Also, what happened was rich karmic retribution for that music they played in our intro. Someone said disrespectful in the game thread and that was 100% correct.

Crazy that the organization that has been to the finals multiple times in the last 20 years is the one that doesn’t know how to act on thst stage.