KAT was locked in. He’s come full circle from that Demarcous Cousins play that turned into a meme lol. He’s big boy that can’t be moved by Wemby now. No more little kitten.

Reflects badly on Finch and staff to not get him that from him earlier

Tbh he still falls back to this but he looked locked in

He did the same in game 1. Cried for fouls when he wasnt touched. Flopped. All of it.

The game started at 3:30 AM my local time. I woke up just before that.

It’s barely noon here.

We need to retire his jersey based off his parenting skills alone.

Rick Brunson was the devil on the Maverick’s sub when Brunson left for the Knicks. Jalen was going to fail and his daddy was going to look like a fool. Dope to see Brunson prove he’s absolutely a top #1 option in the league.

I have an old Knicks cap autographed by Allan Houston and Rick Brunson. 12 year old me did not know how much I’d value an end of the bench point guard’s signature decades later.

Does his dad have a book or something? I wanna be the best dad I can be

All the credit.

I was waiting for them to get blown out in the 3rd quarter. KAT showed great professionalism, saw Brunson was off, and put the team on his back. Kept the Knicks in it to close the lead

The NBA playoffs since 2020 have been great all around just for the fact of seeing new teams in the big dance every year, at least on the West side. But even in the East there’s been 5 different teams in 7 years.

i know it’s the Knicks and they have their reputation as a franchise but they have actually had a ton of guys that are really likable over this last five year run. hart, mikal, brunson, KAT, donte, iHart, and more. they just had a bunch of guys i independently liked and then happened to start making deep runs with a lot of the same guys

Spurs are too dirty for me

“great coach, good dude, comes from a military family”

One of those points are not like the others lol

Yeaj genuinely would be happy with either to win. Would be cool to see Wemby win his first ring in a time of such crazy parity, but it would also be great to see this Knicks team win and to see NY explode.

I’m a lifelong Spurs fan that has lived in NYC for the last 16 years. Knicks would be my second choice team. This is a fucking awesome series and while I want the Spurs to win the city is going to be ELECTRIC if the Knicks win and I’ll be happy for all my friends pulling for them.

Fucking love Brunson, been cheering for him when the spurs were down and out.

This series is just so sooo much more fun to watch than either conference finals. I don’t even care who wins, just give me 7 games of this.

He changes his mind/takes on daily basis, I’m sure he is praising him after this

By “convince us” do you mean the ones actively listening to his podcast? Lmao

It was so obvious from the outside that the Brunson stuff was just media manufactured drama. Same with the whole “KAT chemistry” narrative that got pushed for no reason.

Evolving as an NBA (and sports fan in general) is realizing that Simmons is a moron.

Anyone who watched the Knicks under Thibs knows Rick was the only reason the starters weren’t all playing 48 minutes every game in the playoffs.

I get you guys are in the finals up 1 riding high but how does this one anecdote entirely refute that idea?

All my homies hate rick brunson

There’s been worse games but the FT disparity in the first half was a total joke.

Spurs playoff games tend to be like that

It was horrendous but getting riled up by that while you’re playing is unfortunately not productive.

Was odd how they called nothing in the first quarter then suddenly called everything in the second

It started off great and nothing egregious was happening, I don’t understand why they tightened it up the way they did.

Compared to a lot of playoff games this season, I have to disagree.

He’s also saying the refs did a lot to complain about but I’m gonna be the bigger man and not complain about it.

Give me contact in an nba finals. I liked the officiating overall, although I agree. Home team got some extra calls. Just the way it is. Ultimately, No one fouled out and only really Josh Hart had to sit a few minutes early because of foul trouble.

Call the hard and obvious fouls, but don’t make the fouls affect the outcome of the game.

Foster was inconsistent in the 4th Q where he took away 2 pts from Harper saying Bridges fouled him on the floor (IMO should have been a play-on) and then in the very next play he gave Brunson two free throws by not calling the 1st foul on the floor. After he made them, the Knicks led by 4

these motherfuckers have no gosh darn consistency

Rick Brunson is one of the coaches

At the end he was bitching at some heckler in the crowd, not Foster