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.

Even though we won, I am so furious about so many of those calls last night.

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.

I got chills watching that Mikal Bridges post game “0-0” comment

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.

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.

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.

Bridges knows exactly what it’s like to be up 2-0 and lose the series.

+ 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:

On one remarkable second-quarter possession, Brunson dribbled into the paint and passed into the right corner to Shamet, who hit Bridges in the opposite corner. Bridges darted into the lane and passed to the right wing to Brunson, who found Anunoby at the top of the key. OG then drove to the goal and kicked the ball back to the right corner to Bridges, who nailed the 3-pointer.

Just like Red Holzman drew it up.

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.

And then they don’t catch Wemby literally grabbing Jose by the neck and trying to throw him on the ground?

He’s been getting away with this kind of stuff all playoff. Really disgusting. I have zero respect for Wemby.

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