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This. Fucking. TEAM!
Game 3 atmosphere is going to be insane. And maybe at some point, we will be assigned a refereeing crew with actual good vision and judgment? Even though we won, I am so furious about so many of those calls last night. The KAT offensive foul, Jalen for touching a guy‘s hair, Wemby not getting a technical for shoving Mitch, and Mitch getting a technical for shoving him back? Leave the Wemby turnover and missed jumper aside. It is a goddamn miracle we won that game with those officials calling it.
It’s getting late early for San Antonio.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like this at this stage. When analysts are picking it up, you know something is wrong, as they hate to talk about refereeing. It was Lakers-Kings level BS.
Brunson was mugged all night. It was obvious. The Knicks were late in the shot lock all the time because he had to get through the WWE out there.
And then there’s the way they protect Wemby. The Mitch technical was the most pathetic thing I’ve seen. And then they don’t catch Wemby literally grabbing Jose by the neck and trying to throw him on the ground? And don’t get me started on the moving screens.
The first FTAs for the Knicks in the half were in the OG 3 THAT THE REFS DIDN’T EVEN CALL.
I guess I’m still mad.
This should have been a blowout, but the refs decided to get the best player on the court in foul trouble to make it a game.
I got chills watching that Mikal Bridges post game “0-0” comment
The guy has gone from passive non-factor to a total playoff badass. It’s like he and KAT both went into phone booths and came out Supermen.
I’m genuinely inspired by what I’m seeing from KAT. Like, on a human level. A person faced with tremendous loss and personal upheaval coming out the other end and just deciding to become the best version of himself.
I don’t think the word heroic overstates the point.
Bridges knows exactly what it’s like to be up 2-0 and lose the series.
I love you Mitch
https://x.com/sny_knicks/status/2063114671540887714/video/1?s=46
And yeah Marechal. What about that “hook” they called on Towns after he sealed his defender. That was an enormous call and was total bullshit.
The KAT thing is a miracle. Has there EVER been something like this in the NBA, where a player who’s been around this long, was already an all-star and at least fringe Hall of Famer, but who had a well-established and deserves reputation as an inconsistent flake, and all of a sudden — after a DECADE of being that guy — finally finds focus and becomes the best possible version of himself?
Wemby’s flop on the final shot lol. Wanker.
KAT should be the Finals and playoff MVP. Whether he will be is still up in the air. I guess technically there are still games to play.
Didn’t realize Brunson had 5 steals last night
His defense in the playoffs has been more than passable.
+ the shenanigans of ECSF 1997 v Miami. Knicks up 3-1 but (wait?) refs suspend five (!) of our guys for “leaving the bench area.”
Parts of last night’s game looked as chippy as some of those Heat games. Wouldn’t be surprised if tempers flare further at the Garden next week. Refs gotta focus.
https://x.com/skyedokc/status/2063075829152891319
This is the stuff the Pacers did to us last year.
That is maybe the best possession I have ever seen this team play. Not just the specific roster, but this franchise since I started watching in the Pat Riley days.
UPDATE: immediately after I posted this comment, I went to read Ian O’Connor’s story in the athletic, and came across this passage:
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7337261/2026/06/06/knicks-spurs-game-2-magical-season-nba-finals/
😉 Princeton offense?
In between bong hits Big Chief Jackson is no doubt saying about KAT, “Finally they got someone who can pass out of the pinch post.”
Tony Brothers is a terrible ref
Almost like Silver put the call 📞 in to get the series even , but..
I said this in the game thread last night, and I’ll say it again here, but a quick search showed me that only three players in history have won Finals MVP without being named to an All-NBA Team:
Cedric Maxwell in 1981 with Boston
Chauncey Billups in 2004 with Detroit
Andre Iguodala in 2015 with Golden State
KAT would be the 4th
We’re doing a whole lot of “this has only happened 2 or 3 times” or “this is the first time this has happened” in league history and I can’t get enough of it.
CJ McCollum needs to get a ring if the Knicks do the thing.
He’s been getting away with this kind of stuff all playoff. Really disgusting. I have zero respect for Wemby.
And the Hawks should hang a banner in their arena –
“Beat the Knicks twice”
Sober reflection on the Spurs blog:
https://www.poundingtherock.com/spurs-analysis/104225/what-we-learned-from-dying-a-thousand-deaths-at-the-hands-of-the-knicks-in-game-2
“Two games in, the Knicks look like they know exactly where they are.
How could they not? This is a franchise that has spent the better part of three decades being a punchline. Draft picks that didn’t pan out. Superstars that chose somewhere else. Stars that arrived and immediately got hurt. An owner who, at times, seemed to be actively working against his own team.
Last year, this group got within two wins of this exact moment and then Tyrese Haliburton and the Pacers ripped their hearts out.
Twenty-seven years of almost and now here they are, back in San Antonio. In the Finals. In our building. Their fans look deliriously happy and their players look like they’re on a mission from God. They all look like they’ve been waiting their whole lives for this moment.
Maybe this is the story we’ve really been watching all along.
It could be as simple as that.”
+1
That was such an infuriating experience last night. The tech on Mitch. The fouls on KAT. Give me a break.
When he got off without a suspension for elbowing Reid people said “he’s not that kind of player.” How the hell you know that? It’s his first playoffs. That was his 9th playoffs game.
The kid is dirty AF. And a flopper, too.
Even the Spurs fans agree about the reffing
https://x.com/centexlib/status/2063101685778497958?s=46&t=0wqff4cNt-sCGcDs-uMExw
Keep doing this, Mitch Johnson.
Yes, absolutely. Brown’s penetrate and spray or whatever he calls it is winning this playoffs but along with Rose and Jalen it’s also Thibs spirit.
The refs also took Josh Hart away from us. (Hart helped a little, but still…)
Thank god for Landry Shamet.
we really struggled to get kat involved in the fourth, even when jalen was so deep in hell we literally stuck him in the corner for two huge plays. kat went 0-1 with 1 assist in 10 q4 minutes. his only shot was an improv when jalen stepped under wemby with 3 on the shot clock & hit him under the basket (and he was blocked by champagnie). in the two games combined kat has been 0-2 with 1 assist in 19 q4 minutes and they are not doubling him or, for the most part, even guarding him with their best defender
twice we semi-iso’d mikal with og nearby half-setting a kind of will i or won’t i screen. once with 2min left up 100-99, then again with a minute left up 102-101. going to mikal in the clutch is not terrible but you cannot iso him at the top against a good defender. i get that kat is a poor screen setter and roller, and mikal’s pnr game kind of needs a great mitch screen and a snake dribble, but bringing kat up to pick and pop with mikal is still way better than what they did. or at a minimum if towns gets a guard switched on to him while he’s literally standing in the dunker’s spot the plan needs to be for him to try to pin and get an entry pass. in the two mikal possessions kat is being checked by harper and fox.
we did give him the ball in the pinch (again with harper on him, kat had a small guard or champagnie on him for a good portion of the 4th) with 4min and he hit brunson backdoor. unfortunately jalen missed mikal in the corner and instead threw up a spud.
offense is going to be ugly in q4 of a finals game against a great defense containing an alien. and brunson hero ball is often the best you are going to do. but if you’re not actually doing that you’ve got to get kat involved. as great as kat has been it’s probably a mix between gameplan and his failure to move off the ball and work to get position against much smaller defenders when his number isn’t explicitly called.
Spurs bloggers/fans propose “putting two 7 footers out there” so Wemby can drop off KAT. But they’re also saying things like this:
“The refs, media, and NBA want Knicks to win due to money involved in NY vs SATx. Referees will blatantly favor the Knicks. Game 1 opening tipoff violation was an example where Towns tipped the ball on the way up, instead of waiting for it to reach its peak. Cheating to win, a NY staple. The refs will have non calls vs the Knicks where Knicks will get away with flops and fouls. Spurs fans at home games need to let the refs hear it with chants and boos. FLOPPER, REFS YOU STINK, chants need to be in abundance.”
#postsfromtheupsidedown
For me the most egregious ref mistake was the OG non-call that we had to challenge to overturn. Absolutely impossible to miss-involves an unscreened shooter and one defender and significant arm on arm (not body on body or arm on hair) contact in the act of shooting. And in the midst of their 14-0 run. Knew we were going to be in trouble from the time they called a Deuce (I think it was Deuce) backcourt when his foot was 4 inches from the line.
I felt dirty after watching that game….this league and refs play it off like nothing happened…anybody watching that disgrace knew what was up…I feel sorry for Breen…he has to go with the flow and many times just mentioned “how physical it was”…you know he was probably disgusted…anyhoo…we’re up 2-0 and if we can win something like that…not sure how the Spurs get back in this..i can’t see how they get those whistles in the garden.
Oh I can see how they can get those whistles at MSG.
No doubt the talking point at the league office and officials’ meetings:
“TODAY, WE ARE ALL THE EXTENDER”
Here is the backcourt
Can’t believe I forgot that. I was rolling around on the floor in a helpless rage
https://x.com/lakeshowyo/status/2063067933203640391?s=46&t=0wqff4cNt-sCGcDs-uMExw
And I mean Harper shoves him too. Just ridiculous
This is the clip
https://x.com/F0RGIAT0/status/2063067367089832153/video/1?s=46
It is noteworthy that the games are garnering record TV ratings and it can not be disputed that Adam Silver wants to keep the sponsors happy. ( Thought bubble: not messing with the ultimate result, just the process)
My mayor is Muslim
My bagels are Jewish
My Christian’s Dior
Knicks in Four!!!
Fuck Silver and his ratings
Btw, I will never say anything that clever when someone puts a mic in front of me. Or anytime else.
There isn’t a single solitary soul in the NBA league offices that wants this series to go only four games.
“He’s a beast and a dancer”, says the amazed lady of the house on Brunson.
The Wemby shove on Alvarado is the one that bothered me the most, because you can’t just grab someone by the neck like that. It’s so dangerous.
Feels like the NBA is protecting its Golden Boy all the way. The lack of suspension after the elbow against Minny. The called hit on McCain. This will get old pretty quickly.
Unfortunately I can, too. In fact, I expect it.
I don’t believe in conspiracies but I believe in bias. And there is clearly bias present. And it’s not specific to one crew, either. They look at KAT and they expect him to foul, so when they see anything they call it. They look at all the Spurs defenders and just think they’re physical, so they’re less prepared to blow the whistle when they commit fouls.
The lack of respect we get in the media is mirrored by the refs, and the premature anointing of Wemby and SA has carried over to the officials, as well. They are treated like champs, and we are just challengers.
As someone pointed out here, we didn’t shoot any free throws in the second half until that OG three, and they didn’t even call that. It’s ironic we won the game at the free throw line. I haven’t seen it close up but I wouldn’t be surprised if Brunson had to exaggerate the contact to get that whistle blown.
My hope at this point is that the league will realize that there is no better story than the Knicks winning the damn thing, and the young Spurs being fueled by their defeat. And that they get people in there that will call the game fairly.
They don’t need calls to go their way. They just need a fair whistle.
“He’s not that kind of player.”
The hell he ain’t.
He also flopped like a bitch on that last shot.
It’s ridiculous all the focus was on the Thunder. They’re the same damn team.
Did anyone catch Kal’s postgame on court interview? Bro is super locked in- possessed even. The whole team is super locked in..but Kal just looked different last night.
FUCK THEM PICKS! LOL
We will have to absorb a ton of haymakers to close the Spurs out..let’s be ready
I’m sure he still has nightmares about being up 2-0 over Milwaukee and then watching Giannis rip his heart out.
They threw the sink at us last night, but we persevered. They had everything on their side: the cynical referee calls, the home court crowd, the momentum down the stretch. They failed to take advantage.
Game 1 was whistled lobsided in the first half but balanced in the second half. Game 2 was whistled 100% Spurs all the way, and indeed in a suspicious way. But I don’t think the refs will dare to do the same on Monday in front of our crowd.
There is no coming back for the Spurs. It’s time for the NBA to realize that. It’s time to stop that nauseating commercial they have been running all the time with Wemby circling the trophy. It’s not Brunson, it’s not any Knicks player, it’s Wemby. They made these finals the Wemby finals. Guess what! It’s the Knicks that are taking the trophy!
So many great narratives with this team – Brunson a second round pick, too short to be a #1 on a champion; Mikal a huge mistake, all those picks; Mitch a deep second round pick who can’t make free throws; Deuce a G-league player who just kept working; the Nova champion connection; but most surprising and moving is a grown man who went through terrible loss during a global crisis and suddenly found himself and became the best version of the player he could be while also coming to terms with that loss…just amazing.
And the league wants to give the series to a tall French kid with skills because it has ambitions to be the global game.
If there was any doubt this was a basketball city, just look at the support we’ve given our boys not just all playoffs but especially the last two games. Bars packed. House parties. Orange and Blue jerseys everywhere.
It’s a beautiful things man. Also read that crime is down lol. Knicks are peacemakers
I’ve been thinking about this thing where everyone seems to underrate the Knicks.
But here’s the thing: things were blurry for Wemby because the Knicks brought the intensity.
The Spurs have decided to go toe to toe with one of the most physical defensive teams in the league. And the Knicks intensity forced the game to speed up and the Spurs wilted.
It was close, but the better team won
TLDR: life is good.
I think I’ve watched all the pressers for both games and, as angry as *I’ve been at the officials, I’m so impressed by our guys’ responses. No one has complained; they invariably call the other team great; they are humble about their own heroics; they praise their teammates; they cite inspiring personal life experiences without being mawkish. I just love them more each day.
Of course it’s *easier to be noble when you win, but I don’t think they are virtue signaling. I really don’t. And I’m as cynical and skeptical as the next guy. But I’m also a dad who weeps *every time I watch INSIDE OUT and THE WILD ROBOT. By now I am old enough to be father to all these players, maybe even grandfather. I have such parasocial pride in all of them. Is it weird to weep when Landry Shamet hits a clutch three; it feels so good.
Anyway, I watched last “night’s” game from 2:30am here in Milan with my 15 year old son. I was proud to point to these Knicks and tell him: that’s the way it should be done. From the Knicks fan origin files: His mother is a woman I have been with since our dinner date on 18 May 1997, yes the very same night the Knicks were eliminated by Miami in g7 of the ECSF. We have always marked that date as “our” anniversary and we scheduled our later wedding to coincide. Of course she doesn’t remember g7 at all. No sport-watching for her — ever. But she appreciates the symmetry if not the importance of her two guys cheering together now for, “you know; the blue team.”
After the Knicks win, I passed out in a pizza coma and regained consciousness late this morning. The first sound I heard was my son practicing piano as only a *genius teenaged boy can do (Haha). He was playing “Clair de Lune” by Debussy, which, cliché sure, but nevertheless — to me — beautifully translates grace into the poetry of music. I stumbled downstairs to find “Lady KBA” making prolly our tenth moka pot of coffee along with my 13 year old daughter who was rocking the 90s Knicks Starter cap I had left on the couch a few hours earlier.
Which is to say — Life can be good even in dark social times That’s what our best heroes remind us, I think. Yes these Knicks are fun to watch, but they also — to me — demonstrate a good way to be.
Still coming down from the clouds after that finish.
I think the Spurs will once again bring all we can handle in Game 3, and if we lose focus, they are capable of scratching and clawing their way back into the series. I have a lot of confidence that we won’t lose focus, though. This team continues to be all business. Brunson had a very bad night, but multiple players stepped up in big moments to have their captain’s back. They are so inspiring to watch.
“And the league wants to give the series to a tall French kid with skills because it has ambitions to be the global game.”
I think the league wants the Knicks to win, just not in 4 games. Wemby is already a global star, and he’ll get his chance for redemption soon enough. New York is the greatest city in the world and MSG is the Mecca. It’s been over 50 years. There isn’t a better narrative out there.
From the “Tim Watley’s converting to Judaism just for the jokes // And that offends you as a Jewish person? // No, it offends me as a comedian” files …
In addition to being a bitch move, the flop by Wemby materially impacts the expected make percentage of the shot. You don’t come up with that at the end of the shot on a whim; it’s part and parcel of the entire physical shooting mechanical apparatus from the get-go. And when you do it, you aren’t just shooting the basketball — you’re doing something else.
Wanker.
Mikal Bridges was so fucking good last night, man. I’m watching 3Q highlights again, and that pass to Mitch for the alley oop was so smooth
Josh Hart was not what we need him to be last night. I’m hoping he regroups and has a big Game 3.
Has that Victor shot come down yet?
I never doubted the talent of any player on this team on offense, including Towns and Mikal, no matter what their stats were over short periods of time. To me, that was always about Brunson and Brown using players properly and unlocking their talent. I said that dozens of times. The slumps were not about those individual players. They were about how we were playing. Thise guys were and are terrific.
The major concern to me was always the KAT/Brunson combination on defense. Even if we wound up with a top 1-2 offense playing the right way, I couldn’t see how we’d have a top defense with those two even with OG, Mikal and Hart and Mitch sometimes playing with Towns.
To me, the shocker is Towns. He has not only not been a big liability on defense, he’s more than holding his own. And Brunson is trying hard enough and playing well on defense for the rest of the guys to cover for him. We’ve had a high level defense throughout the playoffs. That’s something I never would have bet on.
However, I did see some slippage back into bad habits last night on offense.
The Spurs defense is ELITE. They gave two time MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander fits on offense. If they can slow him down with his greater size, they are going to give Brunson fits also, especially with Wemby roaming in that middle distance area.
The Knicks have to do a better job of getting the ball up court faster even if that means someone other than Brunson gets it up court sometimes. When we finally do, Brunson can’t waste precious seconds holding the ball, surveying the court and dribbling to nowhere trying to create for himself. Too many of those possessions end up with a 24 second shot violation, forced terrible shot or some other tough shot by Brunson. To get players open, there has to be more purposeful player movement, picks etc.. and Brunson has to pass the damn ball. It’s not easy because their defense is so damn good, but if we fall back into that hero ball nonsense with Brunson dominating the ball and shot attempts, we are going to lose a game in NY. Shai couldn’t do it by himself and he’s a better player than Brunson. He had less of a choice because he has less offensive talent around him. The Knicks have a ton of talent and they better get back to playing right for a full game!!
Thousands, actually 😉
He’s mentally locked in. Even if the post game interview I was laughing because he was like an assassin.
I think the league wanted it to go seven games for obvious financial reasons and the officiating last night 100% supports that. It is impossible for CYO refs to officiate a game more one sidedly if they were objective.
How on earth do you not call 2 minutes for slashing on the OG play looking dead at it? The Mitch T? The Fox non T? The ticky tack fouls on KAT early in the third when he was wrecking the game and you were allowing Brunson to get the Jim Marsalis “bump and run” defense the entire 94 feet? The Wemby attempted decapitation of Alvarado because he had the temerity to try to legally box out his magesty? That CAN’T all be coincidental.
Whom ever wins the chip, it is an easy narrative for the league’s publicity arm to run with, but the gate receipts and the extra hours of commercial time are more important.
The officiating was so absurd yesterday, I don’t think the league can repeat it and take the chance of being analogized with the WWF.
When Richard Jefferson is laughing about the incredulity of the calls against the Knicks, you know it is way over the top.
I was actually watching the Jail Blazers documentary on Netflix the other day, and maybe Rasheed Wallace might be close. That involved a trade and culture change, though. KAT was still clowning 6 months ago.
Was it really all just the Giannis rumors? Maybe that just fucked with him more than we realized.
If I had to guess I think KAT just had a really bad reaction to Mike Brown moving his cheese, and the Giannis stuff exacerbated it.
I think after the MLK Day debacle there must have been a come-to-jesus meeting with someone (Leon, Wes, his teammates, who knows). That was when he slowly began buying in.
And then after game 3, he just took the ball and ran with it.
Bravo, KAT. I don’t think I’ve ever been so wrong about a person.
He was “old KAT” for a long time after the Giannis rumors started.
IMO, the starting point for understanding is that KAT is quite a bit more intelligent than the average pro athlete and that intelligence can often be an impediment to consistent peak athletic performance.
Most likely, the influence of Mom also has something to do with it — again, as with the intelligence piece, in a non-linear, hard to confidently sketch out from afar, basis.
Both influences are atypical for pro athletes, which is why we see the outlier, atypical path and end product.
KAT probably doesn’t even know exactly why himself. Probably doesn’t really care that much. “Things just clicked, me and my guys won a championship, works for me.” It’s very possible he’ll actually “revert” when they hang the banner and the games start back up next fall.
The Knicks missed so many open looks and bunnies, Brunson missed a crucial free throw at the end, the whistle was as bad as I have ever seen in a playoff game, and we were on the road and STILL we won the game.
We are the better team.
Buying in is one thing, but consensus was that KAT was low IQ. Even with the will, there would be no way. Now his passes look like Magic Johnson’s.
And if KAT reads ptmilo’s recipe for success above, things might get even better when Brunson is stifled.
Everyone was (rightfully) raving about what a great passer KAT was for like the first six weeks after he got here, then for whatever reason that part of the equation just kinda … stopped.
And then in Game 4 ATL, 150+ games later, that part of the equation just kinda … came back again, only this time even better.
Very rarely do you see this kind of thing in pro sports, and the reasons IMO are basically a complete mystery.
Yes, I also doubted that KAT could ever play this way. And although their personalities are quite different, I think you can definitely compare KAT’s transformation to Rasheed’s.
The most impressive thing about KAT to me is that he seems totally at peace under the brightest of lights. He is just exuding confidence on both ends. It probably helps that he is going up against a bunch of kids. But whatever, he is taking them to school the way a perennial all-NBA veteran big should.
I am delighted to have underestimated you, KAT, and apologize for doing so. Keep this up and finish the job, and no matter what happens in the future, your jersey will forever hang in the rafters right between Bradley’s and Ewing’s.
“Buying in is one thing, but consensus was that KAT was low IQ.”
This is correct. I, for one, thought that KAT processed the game too slowly and had some ingrained bad habits that would simply not become un-ingrained. Some of those were in the decision-making realm, which suggests low b-ball IQ. In other words, smart coaches and teams could dupe him into bad shots and turnovers on O and bad fouls and poor team defense on D. I think that perception was heightened (at least for me) by reports after we were eliminated last year that his teammates were complaining about his lack of focus.
I know KAT himself deserves most of the credit, but you also have to credit Mike Brown for helping KAT bring this out in himself and Brunson for whatever role he played as team captain in both pushing and supporting KAT.
I will never get tired of saying this:
SEND BROOKLYN MORE PICKS
Mike Brown. Boy, did I underestimate that guy.
I figured he’d pick up some of the low hanging fruit Thibs left around, modernize the offense, distribute the minutes more reasonably, and so on.
He turned this team into a soul crushing two-way menace that plays with stifling attention to detail.
If I may make a distinction… I think the consensus was really that KAT did a lot of dumb things (like miss rotations and commit stupid fouls), not that he was actually dumb. At least that was my assessment of him. It was more about poor focus than low IQ.
Vast majority of that was probably Thibs’s doing (directly or indirectly); he had a proven track record of doing it in Minnesota as well.
While things kinda, sorta seemed ok on that front last year, bottom line is that KAT and Thibs never really got along that well, and Thibs never really was KAT’s guy. There’s no real evidence KAT had much to do with Thibs getting whacked, but the odds that we see this KAT with Thibs still around are infintesimal.
I’m waiting for the big cathartic blowout where we just hang a 30 point asskicking on the Spurs. I think we’re getting at least one of those before the series ends. We seem *thisclose* to solving them entirely.
I can finally laugh at Josh Hart’s “we got him for a bunch of 4th graders” line.
Has happened to Mikal twice, no?
2021 v Bucks Finals
2022 v Dallas (Brunson) WCSF
Or am I wrong? Shamet was on the 2022 Suns too, no? Number one seed then poof. Nada.
Might explain why both guys are running their asses off like 0-0.
Stay desperate at all times.
In my head, I imagine a close out game like that, but Brown keeps the starters until late in the 4th while the crowd sings nonstop.
Basically last year’s Boston close out but 100 times better.
“Vast majority of that was probably Thibs’s doing (directly or indirectly); he had a proven track record of doing it in Minnesota as well.”
Of course it was. You could see that in how relieved KAT seemed for the first half of the season, how comfortable he was in his role now that Thibs was gone.
Yes, to be sure I meant low bball IQ. He’s obvs a thoughtful guy.
EDIT: Same as Z-Man below.
I assumed that when KBA said “low IQ” he meant “low b-ball IQ”. KAT is obviously a very intelligent guy. General intelligence doesn’t always translate to sports. Being “focused” is one aspect of b-ball IQ.
edit: thanks for confirming that, KBA, although I don’t think you should have needed to.
Enjoying the finals so far. There is still 2 more wins to go but I have faith in these guys. I did my run today in orange and blue up here in Celtic country. The team’s play and effort make me think of this blog post I wrote on new year’s eve 1999. https://takingthingsinstride.blogspot.com/2009/02/millennium-musings.html
Yeah, I get that, but I’m saying that I didn’t think KAT’s overall basketball IQ was low. It was split. He seemed like a smart basketball player who did dumb things. That’s why he was so frustrating.
While not exactly and entirely, it translates inversely to sports. The type of singular “focus” sports require is probably the single biggest translational struggle for the actually intelligent.
“While not exactly and entirely, it translates inversely to sports. The type of singular “focus” sports require is probably the single biggest translational struggle for the actually intelligent.”
Nonsense.