Mikal Bridges on heading back to The Garden up 2-0 against the Spurs in the NBA Finals - “0-0. Stay desperate at all times.”
He knows better than anyone that 2-0 doesn’t equal a championship. Also, dude looks exhausted.
Everyone who plays significant minutes in this series looks gassed as hell. after like 20 minutes of gametime it gets into a toss up fast.
Knicks bench going on runs is a godsend for them
Really underscoring the fact that the regular season and the playoffs are two different sports
Sometimes I imagine myself at say 6’5 but my current level of fitness in an NBA game. I feel like in the regular season I’m good for about 45 seconds of action before I’m wheezing. This series or the OKC wcf, get me out of there after a single play on defense lol
I’m 25 and relatively fit and play basketball almost every day and I’m giving it like 3 possessions before I start having heart palpitations
We had 9 days of rest and it seems to mean nothing right now :/
spurs showed signs of tiredness as well. Its a give and take, wemby is not having a good time dealing with KAT into Robinson repeatedly for example
its just a war, spurs are younger but the falloff is palpable on both sides
You saw the mental mistakes at the end which come from tiredness. Think the Knicks are just seasoned through it just that bit more.
Yup thats the point. Knicks are playing at different pace on purpose because while spurs look sharp early on, knicks just need it to be close in crunch time. They are pushing the issue, which tires them out as well, but their bench is killing it so far
Yeah. We’re pushing the ball up faster because its just way easier to score and having the Spurs run back is going to tire them out faster than they tire us out.
knicks just need it to be close in crunch time
Which is why they gave up a 14 point run in the 4th quarter, so it would be a close game down the stretch and they could leverage their playoffs experience. Big brain time
They were giga tired, you could really tell watching Wemby playing defense late. The run they went on really revitalized them though, it felt like they got a major second win and I blame it mostly on the refs to be honest since they basically forced KAT out of the game on two back to back bogus calls, plus refusing to call anything on our shooters who were getting mobbed (before the challenge on OGs three we had no FTs in the entire second half).
I personally think the extra rest made a huge difference and gave us the edge despite the refs unbalanced calls
It was an incredibly long and physical game, I was exhausted just from watching
Short term thinking. Yes, we’re up 2-0 but if the series extends that’s only worse for the Spurs. Their 7 game grueling series with OKC doesn’t just disappear
Lmao nah I’m sure it was a godsend for them
Knicks having a good bench, and a coach who plays them is huge. Mike’s rotations are amazing. They are outrunning the Spurs, and Wemby’s biggest weakness is his endurance.
Yup. I hope him and the team re-watch that 2021 final and last year’s ECF. Don’t ever take your foot off the gas until the job’s finished.
Some may even say up 3-1 doesn’t guarantee a championship.
That’s the reason the Knicks are winning it all. They have a lot of guys who have experience playoff heartbreak. Experience matter and the Knicks want it more. Spurs youth definitely showing from players to coaching.
He might exhausted but I’d trust the Knicks even if this game went to OT. Dude’s straight up locked down zoned in. It takes a lot to win this many games in a row and we’re all witnesses.
You can see him start to strain a little as the third question starts getting asked.
That’s what you love to hear if you’re a Knick fan.
I can’t believe this. Any of our other Knicks teams would’ve shown up straight from the club, celebrating after winning game 1.
They wouldn’t have made it this far tbh
If the Knicks win this championship, they might need to give Jay Wright a ring
Yup. We can’t get complacent for a second.
Can confirm
Fuck them picks
Fuck Burger King
Fuck T Mobile
FUCK TRAE YOUNG.
FUCK DUNKIN DONUTS
FUCK BASKIN-ROBBINS
WHO THE FUCK IS TINGUS PINGUS???
Louder!!
Mikal once talked on the Roommates Show about going up 2-0 against Milwaukee and being so confident that they were going to win that he was starting to think about what he’d have to do to win Finals MVP. Bucks came back and won 4 straight.
Forgot he was on that Suns team. Makes sense why he keeps saying 0-0.
I think it’s coming from Mike Brown. Jalen said the same thing in his post game, that they went into this game with the mentality that it’s 0-0, not 1-0, and they have to do the same thing for game 3.
Hart also said something similar during the Cavs series I think, maybe after game 3 he said the mentality for game 4 was that it was 0-0
KAT’s also been saying it. It’s either from coach or they’ve started saying it in the group chat.
“Guys its been 2 months when are we playing game 2?”
Obligatory analytical joke
The Champions group chat
I think the longer this winning run goes on, paradoxically the easier it becomes to really not take the next game for granted. As soon as they lose a game now, it’s back to square one momentum wise. They’re fighting to keep that nuclear furnace burning.
Every single Knicks player has been saying this the entire post season. It must be from coach brown or one of the players with past experience hammering this home. Every post game interview the hammer the fact that it doesn’t matter what they’ve done in the past all that matters is the present.
To be fair, basically every team in every playoff series says some variation of this.
well not every series
“but actually the excel spreadsheet says…” -Kenny Atkinson
analytically, its cheaper to hire someone who plays spreadsheet Gm for fun.
Fuck them picks. Actual MVP right here. But yeah stay quiet king and move in silence
Like lasagna
Okay. I have to ask because you bought up the 6 Foot 7 line.
For years, I, and I think 99.7% of listeners thought Wayne was saying “bitch real G’s move in silence like lasa*g*na where the ‘G’ is silent and isn’t pronounced in the word.
But then I can’t across this thread sometime earlier this year where someone posited that Wayne was saying “bitch real G’s move in silence like law’s on ya and that shit blew my mind.
Do you subscribe to the more widely accepted theory, or do you think it was meant as a double entendre? Had you ever considered it before? Because I sure as hell didn’t.
Upvoting for the absurdity.
Is this a joke lol it’s 100% lasagna and how the g is silent
It’s lasagna, but it could be a double if you want to be charitable.
I’ll subscribe to the double entendre 🤯
For those who are unaware like me, what’s fuck them picks in reference to?
Fuck them Picks is a reference to Knicks giving up 5 First Round Picks to Nets to get Bridges, forever consider an over pay, but Knicks chant when Bridges comes alive in the playoffs
I’m sorry I dont care what the hell else he does the rest of his career, it is not an overpay. so saying forever I just can’t abide. he’s a top playoff performer period.
Oh I agree with you bro. I think he’s easily worth every bit. Just speaking on how the noise speaks
I was just watching highlights of him stuffing the Celtics last year twice in a row on defense to win two playoff games
his defense has literally rewired my brain when i workout
This interview bouta be on repeat next time I’m at the gym. CMON 🔥💪
knicks traded 4-5 picks for bridges (pick swaps included), and he was kind of struggling to find his role consistently since he went from near all star to role player, so knicks got shit for it. So when he finally started clicking and swinging games its FTP
Ohhh. Thank you. FTP.
BROOKLYN was FLEECED
Look how hungry that boy is man I love him
Mikal has been up 2-0 in the finals before. He does not have a ring. Knicks don’t have to worry about him he knows 2-0 don’t mean shit
All Chipotles in the NYC area should swap out lettuce for Kale for the next week
This shit is like crack to me. FTP
Stupidly locked in
Ask me about them fucking draft picks
What are your thoughts on those draft picks, sir?
🎤
FUCK THEM PICKS
SEND THEM ANOTHER ONE
THE NETS CAN HAVE FIVE MORE, FUCK IT
Man look at his intensify. F them picks ya heard, Knicks in 5
He’s so locked in I love it.. FUCK THEM PICKS
this shit is really going to make me cry bro my grandmother has to witness this shit man
Locked tf in. This team is special, not gonna see this level replicated again in a long time
Mikal bridges for 5 bad first round picks was a steal of a deal, idgaf what you think!! If you called it 5 second round picks it would be obvious.
If you need more points to back up the claim here you go: 2 of the 5 picks are already in the Gleague, the Knicks didnt have to give up any important players to get him, he has 2 playoff runs with multiple critical games where he was the difference to get a win
I’m saying it again, Mikal was a steal at 5 FRPs
Absolutely absurd level of locked in from this team right now across the board
Yeah he knows the pain of thinking 2-0 means a sure fire win
I’ve never seen Mikal this animated. Go off brother. LETS GO KNICKS
This is my favorite athlete interview I’ve ever seen
Come back to Phoenix Mikal. We still love you here
We love him more :)
He knows he cant blow it this time. You get thay ring Mikal
Literally the perfect interview
Fuck Dem picks
I know shit about bridge but that’s my dawg now.
my bagel poppy seaded, my mayor my habib,and fuck trumps bitch ass.
Knicks in 4, this Americas team now.
i love it. daigneault preaches the same 0-0 mentality to the thunder as well. knicks seem like they’re in the exact headspace they need to be in
Mikal getting fired up like this sends a chill down my spine
Dude has been playing out of his fucking MIND
So happy for this man if the Knicks win it all. Fucking Phoenix sent him packing to get KD only to crash and burn and now it’s looking like he’s gonna win his first ring. I LUV IT!!!!
Wasn’t he on the suns squad that blew a 2-0 lead? Asking for a friend
Yes. To the Bucks.
He probably learned and grew a lot from that experience.
our guys are locked tf in. They want this.
I’m a fringe nba fan so I don’t know this dude at all but I’m immediately a huge fan after seeing this. Stay desperate is the mindset of a try-hard in all the best ways.
I’m convinced that Mike Brown has shown them AI footage of their faces after losing the NBA Finals.
Good mentality to have, in the Phoenix finals he even said that they thought they had a championship won at 2-0.
It’s wild we all did. I’m a Debbie downer fan and thought it was going to be a sweep, the news articles the players everything felt like that. Then it wasn’t. I really think there is something to be said about great players and great moments and it’s really apparent Mikal learned from his hardships. Dude also played 40 minutes last night
He was thinking about what he was doing with his Finals MVP hardware… glad this team has been all sides. OG is probably telling them about how hard it was to wait so long to get back too.
These dudes are going to be so good for so long
Go further. Down 0-2.
LOCKED IN
Meanwhile Wemy is crying all over the floor for winning the WCF.
Mikal Bridges up 2-0 in the finals against a European freak of nature. That’s two nickels for Doofenshmirtz
I know it’s not over until it’s over but it sure looks like the Knicks gonna take it this year. There is gonna be AT LEAST 1 riot.
The look of a psycho in his eyes! Hell yeah, Bridges! Fuck them picks! They probably doing nothing but watching Cocomelon.
That sounds like experience learned from being a 2 time national champion. That kinda of mental attitude helps keep composure in the last few minutes of crunch time
Man and he was automatic last night
Locked in
My boy was amped!
You already know what to do with them picks!
Fuck them dicks