The important thing for Game 5 is that, if it is close late in the game, the Spurs should really just give the ball to De’Aaron Fox, and let him simply figure things out on the fly.

As the high from Wednesday wears off, reality for me is setting in.

Winning the last game is going to be the hardest.

I don’t expect game 4 to destroy the souls of the spurs. I expect then to be extremely pissed off and to play with extreme desperation. Every game we’ve won has been by 1 point. We could easily be talking about us being swept right now. We’ve barely led any of this series except when it’s mattered.

Taking nothing away from our guys but San Antonio is very good and this is still a very evenly matched series.

I think we have to close out Saturday. If we lose then a lot of pressure is going to be on us to close it out at home for game 6 and MSG sometimes can be a detriment to us when the pressure is on us. And then if it gets to game 7? Who the fuck knows.

So more than any other game coming out strong in game 5 is going to be the most important thing. We cannot govern this team any hope.

Spurs are minus-5.5.

What do you guys think of this play, is Wemby trying to hurt OG, as Ian Begley implies, or is this angle, which is from the comments to his tweet, convinces you that he isn’t? I think the 2nd angle absolves him.

Every game we’ve won has been by 1 point.

They won Game 1 by ten points.

The important thing for Game 5 is that, if it is close late in the game, the Spurs should really just give the ball to De’Aaron Fox, and let him simply figure things out on the fly.

That’s a very solid strategy, I think the Spurs will be smart to follow it.

Do the Spurs have the TALENT to sweep three games in a row from the Knicks? Of COURSE they do. When they’re not doing dumb shit, they’re fucking awesome, and likely the more talented team between the two teams (the best player on the court is clearly Wemby).

But, well, they DO do dumb shit, so come on, they ain’t winning three games in a row against the Knicks. I doubt they win ONE game in a row.

Brian, statistically you are right but it has happened before and what if they immediately take the lessons of game four to heart?

They are a very talented team. We need to close them out tomorrow.

I would just say let’s not get cocky like the spurs did last game. I doubt our guys will do that but we need to finish this off now.

I didn’t look but I bet game 5, with the team leading 3:1 playing on the road, usually goes to the home team. I hope I’m wrong.

I assume the arena will be at least 50% Knicks fans tomorrow. Maybe more?

Has any Finals team ever been this dumb? It really seems like uncharted territory, which makes predicting its future a little more challenging.

I do generally agree that it’s hard to see their shooting/execution combo being good enough to win three straight games.

Maybe it really is just their youth and maybe they were just too young all along to go the distance. They probably should have gotten themselves some adult supervision at the deadline.

I think it’s their youth and inexperience but also cockiness, which is partly bc of wemby’s entitlement.

Which is why I won’t be satisfied till we win. If game 4 humbled them and they play with urgency and humility, that changes things for them.

I know we are up 3-1. I’m very happy, but I’m still not super confident. Being up 3-1 is huge when you have home court. But in this case the Spurs have home court. These kids still think they are the better team and would up 3-1 if they didn’t melt down twice. So in their minds they are a solid favorite tomorrow. Assuming they win all they have to do is win 1 game in NY to get it home for game 7. In their minds they already beat us once in NY once and should have beaten us twice. I don’t see them rolling over next game like the Cavs did after we came back on them. We better come out ready in game 5 because game 6 will be ridiculously pressure filled for NY. Anything can happen.

Has any Finals team ever been this dumb?

I can’t recall any. You rarely get teams this young in there.

Anything can happen.

Anything CAN happen, sure, but WILL it happen? Come on.

I didn’t look but I bet game 5, with the team leading 3:1 playing on the road, usually goes to the home team.

Anybody have an easy way to look this up?

Brian is not going to kick being cocky to the curb. It’s a big part of what he does around here.

We did get a triple “it’s good!” From Mike Breen. I think he was ready with the triple bang if the Brunson shot had gone in.

I suspect that it’s very easy to look up, Alan, but I suppose most of us kind of don’t want to do so because it’s likely not good news for us and we don’t want to see it. I really think whatever it says can be thrown out the window, though, because this Finals is like no Finals before it, and certainly this Knicks team is off the charts in terms of historical fit to any prior teams.

In my newsletter today (free for anyone), I wrote about the best TV show I’ve watched over the last two months. You might be able to guess what it is:

https://www.whatsalanwatching.com/friday-check-in-go-new-york-go-new-york-go/

It’s not cockiness! Just, well, come on! The Spurs have now fallen apart late in pretty much every game! They’re now supposed to win THREE straight games? Forget everything else, who think that that is likely to occur?

you would think almost every nba finals is unique, this series though seems to have a uniqueness all its own…

saturday will most likely be wild with no known outcome ’til the last minute/seconds or so determining the winner…

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