[Highlight] Closeup of the crucial Wembanyama turnover + foul on Brunson
Brunson saw what was happening before anybody else.
His eyes went crazy.
He’s literally like, “For real??”
“this is for me?”
“This for me.”
The look on my face when the order is wrong and I get more food for less pay.
The look on my face when there’s a thing where there shouldn’t be
This is mine.
That’s the same look you make when there’s only three eggrolls left and you gotta figure out how to grab yours
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Luckily I live with losers who never touch them so I get to eat all the egg rolls every time
Almost like there’s no match for experience. Wemby will get there, but he’s not ready yet. Not composed enough, too much exuberance. Brunson is a super smart vet surrounded by vets
curry’s behind the back pass in the finals disagrees
Curry was 27 in his first finals. Wemby is 22
no one realized the cheese fell and before you know it the mice seizes it
fantastic comment
A few seconds ago, Brunson was thinking that he had completely messed everything up, and then suddenly Wemby gave him a huge chance to make up for it
Castle even tried to grab him and prevent him from getting the steal.
Imagine Castle in the moment. Watching Wemby until he looks away towards the right. So Castle turns his head up court to run, then instantly has to recognize Brunson looking behind him instead of at him. I would have just thought Brunson was focused on Wemby and as Castle you would think just get passed Brunson and maybe get a pass once beyond him. Then the ball hits him in the back.
That split second of wemby looking right was probably the reason why castle just reacted to running left without looking back,
Kinda crazy unlucky becuase if i remember the other 3 spurs players were also open there
The slomo is wild lol. You can see his mind processing “should I jump the pass, wait it’s going to go off his ass, lemme just get over here”
It helps that he was directly in front of the play. Lol
He’s my DPOY
Loved the Spurs bench players…NOOOOOOO
Literally right in front of those clowns that were talking shit game 1.
literally the moment castle’s head turns towards him he understood what was about to happen. elite elite play on the ball from my small guard who can’t defend :)
Looks like Castle was anticipating the ball for a second and then figured Wemby was gonna dribble it up court. He looked away right when Wemby passed it.
They just out of sync.
Yeah. Plus with Brunson in front of him, that pass made no sense. If Castle gets the ball, he’s either going out of bounds, charging into Brunson, or getting trapped.
Castle looked right after the rebound. He checked to see if Wemby needed an outlet after the rebound, and Wemby didn’t pass. He then turned again to check if Wemby was going to handle the ball, which he did. He then ran down court trying to get in position, at which point Wemby had a brain fart and made a bad pass.
Definitely experience came into play. Wemby got too excited and panicked. It happens… just sucks for him it happened in this situation.
From other angles, and a little bit on this one, you can also see Wemby looked at Castle, and as Wemby looked to his left, he immediately passed assuming Castle was still looking at him.
It’s so crazy that you can spend countless hours in the gym, countless hours watching film, engage in countless discussions and become one of the most precocious players in the league, all to have an L handed to you over a split second lapse in judgement.
Never sleep, its the cousin of death, and there will ways be an professional opportunist like Brunson ready to jump. It’s the NY way.
It’s a bit annoying to see Spurs goofing up after their performance against OKC. Knicks definitely ready to win it all.
It’s not the first time this has happened for them either. Champagnie also had a similar miscommunicated pass in transition to Wemby in one of their games against OKC. They’re trying to push up quicker than they’re used to and are rushing through the details.
Castle def vindicated, the spacing was just awkward and he bailed on receiving the pass at a reasonable moment (which happened to be the exact moment wemby threw it lol)
Weirdly if you look at the main angle, Harper and Vassell are in somewhat better position to receive an outlet, and are actually the ones that don’t look at all ready to anticipate the pass, especially Harper. I think this may have played a role here because you can see Wemby survey the court and they weren’t really options. Castle was more ready until he wasn’t but really wasn’t in good spatial positioning to receive the pass, and Fox was behind play. If anyone should have been more ready to receive a pass it was probably Harper, and he genuinely doesn’t even look at Wemby, and I’m a Harper truther.
But ultimately Wemby just needs to have the decision-making ability to hold onto the ball here given his skillset and the situation, especially with KAT still kinda between him and his other teammates. Brutal!
They’re young and will recover but you can’t just throw finals games away and it’s very hard to see them digging themselves all the way out at this point. And you can’t just count on making the finals again no matter how good and young you are. Harper and Wemby gonna dominate the league with health and a little luck on their side tho
I can also see that Wemby wanted to bring it up but saw Castle was getting ready for the pass and so he passed
Not just that but he was heading toward the sideline so he was just kinda just swiveling his head around to look back from his right while running the sideline
What makes it a super bad decision (obviously hindsight 20⁄20) but even if he was looking why would you put him at that angle on the court. It’s just bad decision making all around to have even been thinking about it, that’s why he turned his head, he didn’t even think it was an option to get a pass at the point. He’d have been trapped right at the half court line. With Brunson ready and in great position
Not to pile on but that pass was lazy too. Even if Castle was completely in sync there Brunson was gonna close in either to trap him a bit on the sideline or get his hands on the ball for more chaos. That’s a pass you make sometime in a February back-to-back, not in a must have Finals game.
as much as Wemby looks to be the next best thing, this is his LeBron/Spurs series where youth and inexperience are showing. Gotta climb that ladder first.
Castle is more than capable to dribble out of that pressure by Brunson and even if he wouldn’t be, he is very much capable of passing out of it.
Wemby on the other hand is 7’4 and has handles that are not nearly as tight. That is why he has dshed out the pass to him, which is what he has been doing all series long. He is not supposed to bring up the ball.
It is ultimately just being out of sync and a miscommunication, but putting this squarely on Wemby is kind of unfair when he made the play that is fundamental basketball and that is expected of him.
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He never once put his hands up to expect a pass
I mean they’re professional basketball players, not middle schoolers. You don’t need to have your hands up to expect a pass.
They’re just out of sync, though
Even if Castle was looking, that pass would have led him straight out of bounds.
this is purely inexperience personified. the adrenaline of that moment was probably unreal. seconds away from 1-1 and a comeback win. comes down to the wire and it goes our way
as a knicks fan tho WTF THESE THINGS USUALLY HAPPEN TO US !!!!
I am sorry but I think in recent years, these things usually does not happen to you, Knicks have been one of the most clutch teams recently. Haliban g1 was crazy but it was just 1 game and they were on some “mission from God” bs run last year until the achilles
The Knicks have historically been more of a team that doesn’t put teams away. Evidenced by: the Maxey 4th quarter in 2024 Game 5, the Nembhard game winner in 2024 Game 3 when we were up 10, I believe, at one point in the 4th, the Luka 60 point win at Dallas in 2023. Could’ve easily added today if not for the above Spurs mental lapse.
Edit: and of course, the lovely Neismith/Haliburton Game 1 :‘)
Last year the Knicks played six close games with a significantly less talented Pistons team because we were getting outcoached. Hasn’t happened this year (yet)
We could’ve been in a timeline with the Pacers and Knicks being b2b champs. What an insane albeit cool thought.
Could still happen next year
mission from the devil
Hail Satan
Can it happen to you in the next 4 games pls? Thanks!
I CANT MAKE THAT PROMISE TO YOU MY BROTHER!
Dont jinx it pls😢
We already have the biggest jinx in the world coming to game 3 and it might be in part because Mitchell Robinson is a fan of his
Likely more Dolan than Mitch, but yeah, not great either way. Only chance it goes well is if the crowd is so loud and explicit he has to leave. A “Jeffrey Ep-stein” chant that the broadcast can’t ignore works too.
Omg I forgot that the crowd could do the Jeffrey chant… I want that so badly
Besides his disgustingly vile crimes with Epstein and all the other war crimes, treason, etc I feel like he doesn’t get enough pushback for how he intentionally mishandled Covid and caused millions more deaths that could have been prevented. For someone with such a low IQ, he’s up there with Putin, Hitler, Stalin for evilest humans imo
As a Lakers fan, I had NO idea this Knicks team was so good. To be honest, I thought San Antonio would steamroll them. I’ve been in awe each of these games.
I know right, we’ve had those kind of butter fingers for the last 4 years
Teams are dead even at this point, coming down to executing at the end of games. Knicks just the far more experienced team. I mean this Spurs team is a year ahead of their timeline easily, crazy to think they are even this good right now. Knicks deserve every bit of the glazing they are getting right now.
Their youth and lack of poise and experience really coming through these last couple of games. They’ll grow and figure this out eventually.
Yeah the Knicks have been on several playoff runs with this exact same core that’s older. The Spurs have very little playoff experience (really only Fox who was great last night) and that’s what showed last night, and arguably also down the stretch of game one.
Makes you realize that if Wemby remains healthy, this Spurs team can become an insane juggernaut to try and overcome
Same was said about OKC with Durant, Westbrook, and harden. Also same is true with the current thunder team lol. You’re getting people now calling to blow it up with them and trading chet. Championship windows are usually small.
This is where a coach should step up and make sure the young players inexperience doesn’t cost them. You’re tied, call a time-out and just eat up the rest of the clock on your last possession. It’s not like you can fear a turnover if you just pass it to Wemby high enough for no one to touch it, and you just let him try and get you the game winning bucket with clock running down. Worst case, you go to OT with everyone that’s giving Wemby trouble on defense in foul trouble ( especially KAT)
Coach don’t have no experience either lol at this level at least
Yeah the Spurs are getting out-coached hard this series, horrible decisions. Keeping Fox who was horrible all game and benching Harper in G1 was criminal.
Should have got cp3
I thought the same thing as I was watching
Also because somebody needs to teach the youngsters how to throw lobs. I can’t count the amount of times Wemby was in position and would signal for a lob only to be completely ignored
I’m happy someone else is noticing the lob thing. People are acting like Wemby can’t get in the paint at all, but if you actually watch him all game, there’s a ton of times where he gets into the paint and calls for a pass or lob and the guards just ignore him. Then he rotates out to clear space in the lane.
They are better at throwing lobs to Kornet.
That’s the thing like, even most of the ones they do throw are awful. Wemby makes them work somehow because he’s 7’5 with excellent agility but throw them to most other centers and that’s a TO
And I get KAT is a giant too but still
They’re still young so they can improve a lot but they really need to work on that this post-season. As a team
I mean, they’re remarkably poised. Remarkably. I think Wemby is just exhausted.
As bad as it was, the Spurs still had a chance to win the game. The score was tied with 9.5 seconds left. But the Knicks missed one free-throw. So with 7.5 seconds left and down by one, the Spurs were in pretty much the same position. Just a little less time.
They had a time out too lol.
Imo no timeout favors the spurs, if mitch called a timeout, knicks just swap out brunson for a bigger defender. Not just that, but the knicks have a better coaching staff, mike brown is no slouch in after timeout adjustments, he’s literally one of the best defensive oriented HC’s in the league.
The mistake is just in the turnover, which is just wemby and castle being young and inexperienced. Sucks, but that’s where that vet experience and poise actually matter.
maybe but you have to play your game not play to how your opponents react. I think a timeout is the correct call. gives you more time to get a better look for wemby and you live with the results.
You kinda have to play both and I say this from experience, cause in Soccer our normal/best formation used to be a 4-4-2, which took best advantage of our excellent defensive line and midfield passing to control the pace of the game.
But if we’re stuck, our coach would often have us run a 3-2-5 (really a 3-2-2-3), which is objectively a bad formation. Even though it wasn’t a good formation, because the other team wasn’t used to playing with it + we normally play pretty defensive, you could cause a ton of chaos, and we could usually score a goal before reverting back.
Same situation here, is it better to run a set play (4-4-3 formation, objectively better move) or try and score in the chaos (3-2-5) and hope your opponents are unprepared + with worse defenders? Tough to say, especially since we saw the ATO after and Wemby didn’t score.
The argument for no time out is you get a better look. Calling a time out sets the defense and gets better defenders on the floor. The risk is you are more likely to turn it over.
sorry this is just wrong. theres an advantage to getting your offense set as well. you get to draw up a play, you stop the clock and you advance the ball. no timeout i think favors teams that have a great scorer, who already has the ball in his hands, and and they are able to play in transition or semi transition. the offense you are able to get with no timeout is usually an iso or a simple pick and roll. which can work but the spurs offense is at their most dangerous when he’s in the paint. as soon as wemby got the rebound the spurs should have called a timeout to be able to draw a better play up.
Wemby got a great look, just missed
Ball is wayyyyyyyyyyy heavier when it’s a “you miss, you lose” shot, vs when it’s a tie game and at worst it’s overtime.
It’s arguably a different case. If this did not happen, the Spurs wouldn’t have fouled Brunson. Even if they miss the final shot it’s going to OT.
Tied vs down one being pretty much the same position is an insane take lmao
i disagree that it’s basically same situation. they were now 1 point down and in a ‘need a bucket’ situation because of this play. You would have another 5 mins to win the game even if they missed. not with this now.
Also it looks like Castle did get a hand on that ball while he was out of bounds before the Wemby foul, so it should have been dead ball knocks possession with a chance to win it on a final shot.
doing that after the 16-0 run was as anticlimactic as it can be
seemed pretty climactic to me
I certainly climaxed
What’s going on in Brazil that this was anticlimactic
I don’t think you know what the word anticlimactic means
Wemby refuses to pass immediately causing the turnover
He plays like a guard instead if a big man so Castle is probably thinking hes just gonna take the ball down the court himself
Exactly right. He was filling in spacing when he transitioned toward the sideline. Looked for the ball initially. When he realized he wasn’t getting the initial pass, fills to his spot on the fast break.
This series is brash youth on the come up vs. seasoned vets in their primes. Both have their ups and downs but the downs for Team Youth have broken their backs 2 games in a row.
This Spurs team has a TON of talent, but the Knicks are proof that you sometimes you have to get burned by these soul crushing losses (looking at you Haliban) to grow into the team everyone knows you can be
The Spurs talent is on the starters. The bench isn’t a championship bench.
Dunno, Harper and Bryant have both impressed and they have the 6 man of the year. Maybe it isn’t a championship bench this year, but it will be.
Just a lot of youth
Keldon’s game hasn’t translated well into the playoffs at all. Bryant I can see being a solid contributor with more experience though
Bryant hasn’t done anything yet besides hacking Robinson and co-starring to Brunson highlights.
Meanwhile the Knicks bench was holding strong, not looking overmatched against the Spurs’ starters when our guys got into foul trouble.
The Spurs are crazy good, and still might win this, but it looks like the Knicks simply have more depth, more experience, and more ways to hurt you than the Spurs can account for right now.
Their roster is incomplete which is why I was surprised that they won 62 games this season. People can say bottom teams are tanking but they’ve been that way for over a decade now. The Spurs are just running into a team with no clear cut leader but battle tested from adversity their entire careers. The starters can improve and they can fill out their roster spots. Things just aligned well for the Knicks so far this season, including Cleveland mentally collapsing from game one in the ECF. The match up with the Spurs is in the Knicks favor so far and I don’t see the Spurs winning 4 out of 5 unless there’s a freak KAT, OG, or Bridges injury. Brunson isn’t not as important as they are in this series imo.
Sorry but saying Brunson is not as important in this series because he’s shooting poorly is bs. Spurs have designed their entire defensive game plan around him and the Knicks do not have another primary ball handler that’s anywhere close to as good or reliable as Brunson. Without him they would be turnover machines and KAT/OG/Bridges would not have the space to work in that they’ve had. And the young Spurs would run all over that. Fully admit JB has been shooting poorly in this series but he’s still essential to this team operating the way it does. Brown did a lot of experimenting this season including putting the ball in other guy’s hands in crunch time and it was usually ugly. Those guys are elite players carrying us to glory but Brunson is the only A-plus handle on the team and that matters a lot, especially when things crank up to 11 in the last few minutes.
Exactly. What impresses me most about these Knicks after watching for many years is that we are finally, finally a team who knows how to NOT LOSE games. We’ve always been able to score/win, but holding leads, eliminating the margin of errors, it’s almost unbelievable that I can watch this team with this level of confidence in the fourth quarter of a close game. Two years ago? No shot. And I think the Celtics’ series comebacks is where we finally breached this point of closing out
This pov makes it very clear it was wembys fault. Like why did you wait till he stopped looking lmao
Yeah, in super slow mo he clearly has all the time in the world to make that decision!
Wembystans are crazy lol he waited too long to make the pass, blaming it on Castle is crazy work.
High level basketball is full of very quick decisions that need to be made correctly.
This shit is always the passers fault. I found it hilarious how many people in the comments were blaming Castle
You don’t pass unless you know they’re ready for it, basketball 101
Anything to protect their golden boy lmao
it was a split second thing in real time dude
He’s not in frame but Fox was open on the right. Plenty of time to get it to him to advance the ball, no need to rush ahead to Castle.
Does look like as he’s gathering to pass to Castle that Wemby glances ever-so-slightly to the right, maybe at Fox… might’ve been the difference in being able to pull it back and, ya know, throwing it off his teammates’ back.
I don’t think anyone was arguing it wasn’t Wemby’s fault. But tbh if I had to say if it was more or less clear after this, I would say less because Castle looks at him for like 2 secs and I guess as Wemby is making the decision he looks away. But either way he makes a mistake and either should have realized Castle wasn’t looking or passed to Fox
Multiple people do seem to be arguing that. Which is kinda confusing me but 🤷♂️
Yeah that sucks looks like just awful timing between the two
Legit worst possible timing
The mistake here was Wemby starting his dribble. Castle wrongly assumed that Wemby was going to take the ball up the court. That looks like a team that had no plan on what to do in the event of a securing the rebound.
You don’t really have a plan on who’s going to take the ball up the court, especially with 10 seconds left. It’s usually between Castle, Fox, Wemby and Harper and with 10 seconds left, Castle saw Wemby dribble and assumed he’ll take the ball and go for the iso as last play. In these situation, I think who handle the ball is wrong, because or you don’t dribble and wait for a point guard to play calmly or you dribble and run to not make the defense settle, so I blame Wemby here.
He probably expected Wemby to go for a pull up so he was rushing to space the floor for him. Wemby should’ve passed immediately or just dribbled all the way up. The other big blunder was fouling Jalen right after. He could’ve stayed composed there
they way Brunson holds a split second to go on the inside of Castle to get the ball.. wow, not only saw what was about to happen, but had the presence to know he could get it before OB
The moment Steph thought Wemby is bringing the ball up and turned is the moment Wemby decided to pass it to him. That turnover will keep both of them up all night. But I hope the coach is screaming int his pillow for not calling a timeout. And remind the whole team Wemby is not a FUCKING guard.
Yeah, you want your center in the paint with the other center recovering from the corner 3 spot. The Spurs remind me of the Celtics against the warriors in 2022 because they haven’t gotten a great ball handler and team chemistry yet. The warriors also had a good combination of physical and mental maturity so they outplayed the Celtics in terms of ball movement.
that 2022 comparison is spot on. exactly what this feels like.
It was painful for me so I remember lol. Especially when it comes to late game execution.
Brunson was locked in. This is what I love about him, he’s shooting tour dates but he’s such a winning player he stays laser focused on things like this. His eyes never left the basketball, a lot of guys would have just run back down the court.
His anticipation lowkey crazy
Shooting tour dates is fucking hilarious
Brunson at 0:22 was like: “Hey yo wtf”
The turnover was terrible but the foul was even worse. It was a tie game. They could have trapped him against the sideline.
They ran that break so stupidly. The balance was way off. Mitch Johnson should’ve called the time out. I get that their best offense was attacking in transition, but seeing your team so badly balanced.. you gotta expect there’s a high probability of some dumb shit about to happen. Just an absolute failure across the board.
I’m surprised they never do lol. Worked out for the Knicks so they avoid a historic 4Q collapse late in the game. I don’t see many outside of you call Mitch out on Reddit for not setting his inexperienced team up better.
Thanks mate it wasnt painful enough in livestream, good thing there is a close up for this moment.
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Castle looks away basically the same exact time Wemby looks towards him.
I’m surprised that Tony Brothers didn’t call a foul on Brunson.
seems like wemby’s ping was a bit high on that possession
This hurts to watch
Brunson: WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER
If someone wants an explanation from a spurs fan who has watched every single spurs game- This pov makes it clear it was not any single persons fault but culmination of many things going wrong.
In the past Wemby has turned over the ball in the back court in the regular season games while passing the ball to our pgs after the rebound due to him not checking the surrounding and defender would steal the pass. In this clip when he looks around, its to check if nobody is there to steal it but Castle thinks he is not looking to pass him. There is no clear communication from either here which was crucial. The reason why Wemby was trying to pass the ball was because we went on this run because of our guards running out in transition whereas Castle thinks Wemby is bringing up the ball up because Wemby is the one who takes the shots in clutch anyways. This is the problem with not knowing who has the ball in clutch time.
Idk if anyone remembers it but in game 1 against Minnesota similar thing happened during the last possession. We made a late push because of our guards in transition. We get a stop at the end and Wemby gets a defensive rebound and passes the ball the Harper when he is not ready and Harper passes back to Wemby who then passes back to Harper. That had happened because they were not sure if timeout was gonna be called or who will bring the ball up. Same exact thing happened here.
Now i have no idea if that had been addressed in the film session by coaching staff and this was players fault or it wasnt properly addressed in the first place. Anyways this is basically where the inexperience of this team shows up.
I need to apologize to Castle. In the other replay angles he just looks oblivious to what is going on behind him but here you clearly see he waited and waited for Wemby to make a pass and then just figured that he wasn’t going to.
Making Looney toons plays in the clutch is an interesting choice. He should be a little more worried
Ok thats a hard watch. Wemby thought he had chem with castle like that but he didnt. They just lost the championship on this play.
Should have been a timeout
Mitch trusting players with so little experience is so wild to me in these situations
Ah bummer. Just a brain cramp moment for the guy.
Castle turned back thinking Wemby will dribble it up to the logo and shoot a long ass three just like he did in Game 1 vs OKC.
Wemby made a bad play but I put most of the blame on Mitch for this. It’s a tie game you have a timeout and your team are children. What are we doing here.
And Mitch is a first time HC too. Inexperienced leading the inexperienced.
Saw Wemby hanging his head a lot in this game. Need to stay strong & positive.
We used to get drills as punishment for making such mistakes in middle school…
There are so many things that happened in that 5 second span…..don’t come down on Wemby like that. That young man is the truth! I’ve seen seasoned veterans make crucial mistakes in situations of this magnitude.
lights got too bright for him
Brutal
Sure wish he would use his guards and try and play like a big man You’d think coach pop would be all over that
From THIS angle… I kinda can see the confusion.
Wemby looked off his own player. Castle was watching him until Wemby looked secure with ball and turned his head to the right. Right then Castle turns his head up court. it’s all over at that point
Castle really thought wemby will dribble it up. He even double checked before looking away.
Out of sync or not you don’t want to make that pass right there anyways do you?
It was a dumb idea from wemby to pass the ball. Castle was on the sideline with brunson right there. Castle could have turned it over, stepped out of bounds, or brunson could have took a charge. Wemby wants to act like a guard all year. And in this moment instead of bringing the ball up he passes it. Stupid play all the way around.
That was a bad pass to begin with no? Even if castle were to take the ball, JB is right in front of him either way. Wemby should’ve brought up the ball or found another pass regardless
That’s just simply a bad pass and a terrible follow up reaction by Wemby. Even if Castle is still looking at Wemby, Brunson is right there and Castle is near sideline. He would be in a tight spot. Either call a timeout or push the ball up the floor. Inexperience personified. Might be too tough a hill to climb back from. Then again they came back down 3-2 to the defending champs so there’s always hope.
This might end up being the worst turnover of Wembys career ngl. It would’ve been 1-1
Instantly thought of Jr smith
Inexperienced Wemby is showing. Thought his experience in Fifa would help in this situation but no, he’s rushing in this closing moments.
Coach needs to use their time outs
If the Knicks eventually won it all, someone gonna edit the Larry o Brien trophy over that lmao.
We all thought Wemby was going to pull up for 3 again. Castle was just running for a rebound
Brunson saw this at the speed of this video. He’s locked in!!!
Surprised Brothers didn’t call holding on Brunson.
Iconic!
Hang it in the Louvre
The saying young teams don’t win championships isn’t typically from the lack of players skills it’s from moments like these. The spurs last night in the clutch looked young.
JC and Jose fired up on the bench
Straight up communication error, it’s like when a wide receiver runs a different route than the QB was expecting, people are making way too much of this.
This playoffs has exposed Wemby’s middling bbiq
just fucking terrible. I wanted a timeout. young teams are terrible in these situations. Just call a TO. spurs coach is a huge noob. my goodness.
Shoot everyone blaming Wemby Or Cass but the coach knows his players he knows they are inexperienced just call a timeout and help them out, thats his job. Mike Brown has been incredible and ya’ll know it
The stick bug is finished
I’m so glad that shit just don’t bounce out of bounds
Now THAT is some “lights too bright” shit
The coach should have just called a timeout! Why does a fast transistion matter when you DON’T want to leave time on the clock!?
wemby has taken the mantle on most coddled star from jokic, dude legit choked and the narrative has gone from “spurs in 5, knicks haven’t played a real team, they beat defending champs they’re gonna slaughter NY” to “they’re so young, experience matters they never been here before, i feel bad for him”
could be the 1st First Team All NBA superstar to get BITW talks and then be immediately excused for losing his team the game
Petrified
Not calling a timeout there was malpractice
All I saw was young players playin hard and not blaming each other for mistakes. If this crew stays together, they’re gonna be an unstoppable force
Good chance that cost them the series. I’m sure Wemby will be beating himself up over that one for a while.
What was the score when this error occured?
Hahhahaha
another crucial factor is that the Knicks had just entered the Bonus seconds before during their previous possession when the Spur fouled non-shooting.
Otherwise, Wemby’s bump would have been a non-shooting foul and no free throws.
No one should be defending that pass. Even if Castle was looking, where the fuck was he going to go. Wemby looked like he was dribbling up court until he threw some nonchalant ass pass that cost his team game 2
My guess is Wemby thought twice about bringing the ball up this time after that off the foot turnover last game. Overthinking it.
It’s crazy how this is just like the slightest of misscommunications but it was in a huge crucial moment it will probably haunt them for a while
Yah also Tony Brothers was the best player on the Spurs
Should never outlet to a player directly vertical of you.
Just a horrible pass.
Whole team looked their ages last night.
It’s a foul but that delayed flail by Brunson is something
Despite all of this they called an iso for a mid range jumper which is not his bag particularly. You have to get him nesr the basket there, at worst he gets fouled and wins it at the line. The coach dropped the bag as much as wemby imo.
Hindsight 20⁄20 Wemby should’ve stop dribling earlier and give the pass then, it was a bad signal to Castle thinking Wemby was gonna take it all the way which could be the play as well.
They should’ve taken a time out on the rebound. There was only nine seconds left.
That’s fucking bushleague