Victor Wembanyama: “The margin of error is very thin. We absolutely dominated for most of the series. Our errors are punished so hard, we can’t have ups and downs like that.”
Leading for 80% of the series and losing is wild tbf
Losing in 5, no less.
Not even taking a home game
This right here is the most shocking thing honestly. Pops bout to extend his life for another 5 years to make sure they learn what they need from this loss.
Smh, amateurs.
This line of thinking by Wemby shows his immaturity. This is like when a novice runner starts off a 5K in a full sprint and temporarily builds an early lead. As the race goes on, other runners pass him by as he runs of out energy. That runner would be mocked if he was like, “man, I was dominating that race until those guys passed me.”
I don’t think immaturity is the right word for that. They failed to capitalize on games they had big leads in. He is 100% right in what he said. It’s not that they paced themselves wrong, they just collapsed mentally every game and forgot how to play basketball with the pressure on and the Knicks took advantage of it
That sounds like fatigue. You can make excuse for one game but to do over and over again.
Knicks also play great 4th quarter bball. Brunson best stats come in the 4th. They keep the pressure going strongly in the 4th.
Or it’s a young team choking under pressure not able to close out games?
Por que no los dos?
They closed out OKC. They closed out the other teams.
Knicks are built different. They are a deadly 4th quarter team And their length gives Spurs trouble. Knicks put a of pressure on you with rebounds, Passing lanes, their size.
So it’s def the relentless pressure.
Spurs wouldn’t have problems with CAVS like they didn’t with Knicks.
So I believe Knicks caused a lot of the mistakes. They def fatigued them.
It’s almost like young, inexperienced players don’t have any experience. Crazy.
It’s like a boxer or ufc fighter winning on jabs and leg kicks then getting knocked out. Like it don’t matter till the clock hits 0.
The very sport he plays is a game of runs. 12-0 runs are very common and possible especially with the modern 3 point shooting.
Quite frankly, this is a terrible analogy. Team sports aren’t like competitive running at all. No one in team sports “paces” themselves in the way you describe and if you do (*cough* James Harden *cough*), chances are your team hates you. Sometimes you do make business decisions, like chasing a breakaway in football or a clear home run in baseball, but I don’t know a single competitive athlete who thinks “I am gonna take this play off so I can save myself for the 4th quarter.” You can gas yourself by wasting energy, doing things inefficiently, or doing things outside your role, but that’s a skill issue, not “immaturity.”
The suggestion that the Knicks “paced” themselves like a runner is simply ludicrous. Yeah. I’m sure Mike Brown’s game plan was to take it easy and then come from behind every game to win by a few baskets. Brunson sure paced himself to 40+ points.
Both these teams gave it 100% (well maybe not Fox lol). The Knicks beat the Spurs with their 100%. Whether that’s because they were fitter, clutcher, deeper, more experienced, or better coached, we can debate, but it’s not cause they paced themselves better lol
Maybe it’s cause I am both a competitive runner and rugby player, but I cannot stress how differently my mindset is between the two sports.
This makes absolutely zero sense. Like wild it even got upvoted once.
Seriously
Agreed. These comparisons to fighting sports and running show how many folks here don’t/havent played team sports. They’re completely spurious analogies
“They’re completely spurious analogies”
It’s driving me crazy I can’t figure out if this was intentional or not. It’s got my knickers in a twist.
Thier coach is absolute trash. This is nearly 100% on him and his lack of a plan for literally anything. He just kept losing huge leads and not making a single change. The fact that he kept Fox as the primary ball handler in the clutch after his game 4, when Harper was absolutely balling should be enough for people to realize how fucking bad he really was.
But leading doesn’t mean you’re dominating. For example to dominate the first half by 30 and lose means you were dominated in the second half by 30. Just because you were up while getting walked down doesn’t mean you’re still dominating the game. They were outplayed by the opposition more than they outplayed the opposition. He’s plain wrong
Leading doesnt mean dominating , but leading for 80% is kinda dominating.
You didnt understand the comment you replied to.
Idk. The Spurs won the first half of each game and the Knicks won the second. The Spurs may very well have had the lead for a majority of the minutes played but they were getting outplayed when it mattered the most. They’ll learn from this and be better for it going forward but it’s not like they let this series slip away. The Knicks just had to spot them double digit leads to make the games interesting.
What? They literally gave game 2 away. Tied game with 13 seconds left. They were then up by 29 in Game 4. No one is spotting 29 points in the finals
It’s the way the Knicks play. I don’t remember San Antonio being this unclutch and terrible in closing out games before they played the Knicks. It certainly wasn’t a pattern. Meanwhile the Knicks have made these incredible comebacks like 8 times against different teams.
I think this is right. The Knicks almost seem to prefer coming back from a deficit, meanwhile the spurs are a team of young inexperienced players… thats a recipe for spurs getting big early leads and then losing them.
Idk if the Knicks are just really slow starters, or they just pace themselves on purpose while the other team goes all-in from the start. But I guess with a clutch mfer like Brunson you can confidently go down to the wire every game lmao.
JB said something about how the game doesn’t start until 30 minutes in for them (jokingly)
Tbf 29 points wasn’t enough
tbf spurs should have just tried harder amirite /s
That was karmic retribution being that refs didn’t call Kornet’s kick ball, giving final possession to the Spurs on an out of bounds call instead with a chance to win the game. They shouldn’t have had the ball in the first place.
It’s like the Knicks were just waiting for them to start fucking up and then take advantage. I think we saw experience and maturity win. This was like a YMCA pick up old heads versus the young guys. Young guys start out hot but the old heads know how to play ball, see where strengths and weaknesses are and they methodically chip away. Stat is still wild af
In the 2026 NBA Finals between the New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs, the aggregate point differentials by quarter were heavily dominated by the Spurs in the opening frame, while the Knicks controlled the rest of the game.
The aggregate differentials were as follows:
1st Quarter: Spurs +57 2nd Quarter: Knicks +29 3rd Quarter: Knicks +14 4th Quarter: Knicks +27
He’s confusing dominating the first quarter with dominating throughout.
using ai for a simple reddit comment is so gross lol
But, it’s like who cares. Getting your ass kicked for an entire half can still be leading for 90% + of the game.
Someone posted before too that prior to game 4 it was somewhere like 55% spurs lead, 45% Knicks lead
Game 4 and game 5 really shifted the margin because the Spurs were leading like 90+% of those games
I think it’s a stupid talking point. If you outplay a team in the first half and then get whopped in the 2nd half and lose you didn’t dominate the game.
You know what they say, it’s not a series until a home team wins a game 🤣
It’s not wild when our bench just wasn’t up to it at all besides our rookie, main 5 were just too gassed by the end of it. Mitch not taking smart timeouts when Knicks went on runs and to at least take them so we can rest etc. Plus Fox trying to max win on his Kalshi account and it’s all over
There was a miler like this. He would always lead for 3/4s of the race and then hit the wall the last quarter-mile during which all the other runners passed him. Rare to see that in basketball but the Spurs are it.
Knicks are known for this, how many times did they do this teams last year? It doesn’t matter if you’re up majority of the series if you can’t close out.
In the last 2 playoff runs the Knicks are 5-3 when down 20+ points.
That’s a ridiculous stat
“We’re up by 19. Statistically, if we widen this lead at all, we’re probably going to lose”
Analytically…
Thats a brunson stat, dude never quits and because of that his team never quits
It’s such a weird thing because it’s unquantifiable but it feels like a valuable asset
Knicks are known for this cause they also did it to Celtics. Mitch Johnson has same game plan as Joe Mazulla shoot early clock threes only even if up by 30 with 10 mins left. The Knicks comebacks have been predicated on stupid opposing offensive strategy rather than an otherworldly Knicks barrage
i mean you can say the same thing going the other way. the Spurs early offensive advantage was consistently predicated on an otherworldly barrage of shooting and punctuated by a return to the mean
Yes but if there is going to be a regression to mean or fatigue from shooting or whatever you want to call it you need to slow the game down get to the line and chew clock Mazulla and Mitch Johnson instead just say let’s shoot more 35ft threes 5s into the clock. Thibs had them do this shoot 10,000 threes while up last year to an extent too it is why they lost in the Pacers series.
yeah. there’s obviously something to scoring points early, but i guess my main problem is the “we dominated 90% of the time” narrative. they did not dominate any second half
It’s very funny that a narrative exists of “the Spurs dominated but then choked”. The Knicks were better and are better than the Spurs. The Knicks went 16-3 in the playoffs. They constantly came back on teams all season. It’s not a bunch of flukes this team just will absolutely grind you down. The fact that the Spurs couldnt deal with playing a full 48 doesn’t mean they were better but just couldnt close.
Spolstra said it best, you have to beat the Knicks on every possession cause they’re not going to quit
They didn’t have a barrage of shooting in game 5. They shot 40% from the field in the first quarter.
He literally said that. What more do you want from him?
he’s agreeing with you
Idk man, when you have a 29 point lead your margin of error is pretty damn big
He talked about the margin of error in the series, not one game
I mean repeated 15 point leads aren’t enough?
He was in his head I guess
Man, what a rollercoaster from the end of game 2 to that moment to now.
Well multiple games in the series had a massive margin of error
Margin of error for the series? They lost 4-1
“The margin of error” does not refer to how many points you are up or down. If anything, what you’ve just said supports his point.
“The margin of error” is how many mistakes you can make relative to the cost… a thin margin means even just one or two mistakes costs you big.
Edit: for a community so into advanced statistics etc you guys sure don’t know a lot about statistics (or reading) 😭
I didn’t say the spurs only made one or two mistakes that’s just an example of a thin margin of error. Obviously the spurs had way more problems.
Don’t bring reason into this lol
It wasn’t even really one or two “mistakes” though that made them lose every lead .They lost the lead every time when they just started bricking shots and never tried to change that strategy. Then the crucial mistakes hit them when they had already lost the lead and it was crunch time (Fox layup, Wemby throwing the ball into Castle’s back, Wemby dribbling it off his foot, the blown layup this game and missed FTs in every game)
I never said they made one or two mistakes. I was giving an example of a thin margin of error
You can make a shit ton of mistakes and still win when you’re up 29 what are you even saying
I never said they made only one or two mistakes, I was giving an example of a thin margin of error.
Another pretty normal answer that will be misconstrued by people somehow
umm ackshually wemby is the most egotistical dirty disgusting piece of shit in nba history and also did you know he’s french
You mean the French that when confronted with greedy ultra rich people developed a populist method to deal with them?
People all of a sudden fail to understand basic English when responding. First language speakers too.
It is what it is.
I’m tired of Spurs fans acting like any time someone disagrees with him they cannot read or are taking something out of context. The most high horse fanbase alive.
Leading doesn’t mean you’re dominating. If you dominate the first half by 30 and lose, that means you were dominated in the second half by 30. Just because you were up while getting walked down doesn’t mean you’re still dominating the game.
The Knicks won more quarters. They were outplayed by the opposition more than they outplayed the opposition. He’s plain wrong
Ok, but the people who are disagreeing are isolating parts of what he says. If they have the full context, they’d provide it.
I’ve seen this exact quote get passed around as just “We dominated them” which is extremely misleading
They blew a 15pt+ lead in every game in the series by making a ton of insanely careless mistakes and boneheaded plays because they’re inexperienced. This is a totally normal quote where he discusses how many mistakes he personally committed. They absolutely WERE in a position to win this series and they choked several games away. It is not discrediting New York to say that. Part of winning is taking advantage of your opponent’s mistakes and Spurs gave them 100 to work with.
You are choosing to be mad about the word choice because you simply *want* to be mad and want a player you can hate. Hence why you’re commenting this exact comment everywhere. I will never understand the incessant need to pick part every second of players’ media interviews. You will never be satisfied by these answers unless you get to write them yourself.
You’re deliberately misinterpreting what he means. That’s the issue.
We were dominating for most of it -> We won analytically The margin of error to win a championship is really small -> We didn’t make many mistakes
People genuinely can’t understand English to save their lives when a player they dislike is involved.
offseason spurs need to work on how to close games physically and mentally. the whole season they were terrible at closing games
Kept chucking 3s when up 15+ and Wemby always positioned behind the 3pt line is really what killed them.
Felt a familiar frustration watching the spurs blow leads… Reminded me a lot of the Celtics just fucking chucking 3s
Young guys have only ever played two styles. Iso from the top with drive and kicks, or PnR with drive and kicks. Wemby, Castle and Harper all getting older, stronger, more experience will help. The need to spend the next year learning good habits that contribute to winning.
Dominant until when it mattered most. Him and Fox sold very hard in the 4Q in every loss
“Man my reputation is in the dump right now. You know what could save it? Going for a heavily contested layup in the last 8 seconds of play to secure my team the win!”
It’s not luck or error when Knicks could make a comeback in 2nd half every game.
It’s not luck but it absolutely was about the errors. The Knicks are full of vets who could maintain poise down the stretch and, aside from Harper and his freakish maturity, the Spurs are kids who piled up the mistakes when the pressure was at its highest.
Ok. Losing a lead at the end is about mistakes.
How about coming out shooting 30% and have your 2nd best player picking 3 fouls in like 12 minutes and committing loads of turnovers through bad execution succumbing to ball pressure?
How come mistakes are only pointed out when they happen at the end. I understand things are magnified in the clutch but a complete disregard of the entire game is a misread of the situation imo.
The spurs jumped to a big lead every game then spent the entire 2nd halves losing it. They got outscored 54-28 in the 2nd half of game 4 until knicks got the lead, so yes technically the spurs were leading throughout all of that stretch but still were outplayed and more importantly and decisively lost the game at the end which is quite an important detail.
The same story ran for 4 out of 5 games… So, in my opinion you can stay it was close, they could’ve won but to say they dominated just lost because of mistakes is a severe misread of the games.
They were better when they took a lead but they weren’t as good the rest of the game and that’s why they lost it. Conversely the knicks were outplayed to start the games but weren’t for the remainder of them and that’s why they got the chance to win all of them and did it 4 out of 5 times.
Lets not forget about the Spurs coach either, plenty of mistakes to learn from for next year.
He didn’t say anything about luck. But it was definitely about second half errors by the Spurs and the Knicks balling out.
He didn’t say luck.
Try not to go 100 mph in the first quarter. Spurs looked like a bunch of amateurs and it was so obvious they were gassed after throwing haymakers. Knicks played the long game and hunted the Spurs down every game. It’s a long distance run, not a sprint.
Surprised this is the first I’ve seen this pointed out, have had the same thoughts. Knicks were methodical in their approach. Credit to Thibs, he had these guys knowing how to play 48 minutes.
I think part of it is that the Knicks do often take a bit to pick up steam, even Brunson said in the post game interview that he felt like the game starts at 8:30 and they show up at 9:00 (or something to that effect). I think the Spurs were trying to capitalize on that and get as ahead as they could, but the tradeoff is exactly what happened that the Knicks, once they built that momentum, just steamrolled them in the end.
We just kept executing and executing. Felt like our players were immune to pressure while the Spurs were anything but.
This playstyle fools people into believing the spurs are choking down the stretch. The fact is that they were over performing to start games
Even in the second quarter the spurs often looked gassed. Then they come out strong in the 3rd and the fatigue kicks in even harder during the latter half
Really basic amateur move, running all out in a marathon in the first few minutes. like, they literally gassed out and knicks have veteran stamina
Those clips misrepresent the whole vibe of his interview tbh. I thought he was pretty honest in their faults and how clinical the Knicks were,
Good response
They simply couldn’t close games. It’s a conditioning and mentality issue not an error. You don’t lose 80% of the games in the series on accident
IMO it’s less conditioning and more just that they only have 4 good players, 3 of whom are better defenders than offensively players
They pretty much only have 1 offensive player to go to at the end of games and it should be Dylan Harper not fox. Love wemby but hes not the closer of the team at all.
Yeah, in order for the Spurs to win, everyone knew and I guess expected Wemby to carry with some ungodly 40-20 finals avg. Which proves your point. They need more help for him, I think Fox was supposed to be that :(
For Wemby. Fox and Castle it looked like they were out of gas. Wemby was chucking 3s. For was making mental errors like going for layups instead of running out the clock
Right, they were out of gas because they dont have a bench or anyone who can manufacture an easy bucket
I didn’t realize how iffy the Spurs 3 point shooting was until this series. Fox and Castle aren’t natural shooters they need to get a Luke Kennard type off the bench.
The Spurs bench in general was non existent outside of Harper. Keldon “6MOY” Johnson was a net negative he should swapped out with a 2 way PF possibly PJ Washington.
Luke Kornet minutes were painful too, Wemby got no rest due to that. I’d like to see them sign Rob Williams and draft a big like Tarris Reed
I think it’s disingenuous to say they dominated most of the series. Does he think it’s just really bad luck that the spurs shooting averages went down EVERY quarter? Over 5 games? The spurs built an early lead every game because they came out blazing and spending a ton of energy. The Knicks played steady (but also shot poorly), which is why they always had more to give in the second half. Aside from Game 4, which was truly a collapse from the Spurs, the Knicks took their wins and earned them, they weren’t given to them by the Spurs. The Knicks were comfortable with the Spurs leading for the majority of the game because they knew they’d have more to give in the 4th every single time
They didn’t dominate anything. I would say they played competitively and lost. A lead doesn’t mean you automatically win. People are so wrapped up in “having a lead” that they think being up by 10+ at any point means you should automatically win.
There was some variance luck involved too. Knicks started out 4 of 25 last night, which is pretty absurd, but it happens. It was a case where the Spurs would usually have their hottest shooting early in the game, while the Knicks typically started off cold and warmed up later.
But yes, Spurs gameplan was seemingly to go full force in the first quarter and then try to coast to victory. Maybe that works against a mentally weaker team, idk. I guess it could have worked, but it didn’t this time. Be curious to see how they play the postseason next year
Spurs absolutely had dominant stretches, but they were followed by massive droughts that allowed the Knicks to climb back in. If they treaded water better, there’d be no time for New York to stage the four comebacks they did
I doubt they were comfortable with it, but yeah, I agree with most of that.
Brunson said it best. I think his words were along “game starts at 7, we don’t start until 9”
Fair but some of these guys are psychos so I thought maybe they were comfortable with it lol
Great assessment. Not easy to talk about this after heart breaking losses
A 29 point lead is a large margin of error.
Spurs with one of the biggest choke jobs ever. Only the 3-1 Warriors choke could match up.
How do you lead by double digits every game and lose 1-4 lmao
The biggest comeback in finals history was 24 point until this year. This wasn’t just one of the biggest chokes, it was the biggest one in nba history.
That’s not really what he meant by that. He’s saying their mistakes got punished hard in the series.
I don’t really think they dominated most of the series tbh. They had great first quarters but we are also an abysmal first quarter team, that’s been a constant with our starting lineup for 2 years now. Our starting lineup had a negative net rating in first quarters this year. The other 3 quarters we outplayed them
Thinking they dominated for most of the series is why they lost. Basic lack of understanding of how the game is won lol
Right up there with them winning analytically
Spurs led for 72% of the minutes. They had great stretches that they did not protect and the Knicks capitalized every time
“Margin of error” was 29pts, my dude.
Accurate and not controversial unless you’re reaching. Captures what makes the Knicks great. There’s no margin you could give this team they weren’t taking.
Maybe they just ran around til your 7’5 ass was worn out by the 3rd/4th Q and then tucked you in.
That’s exactly what they did lol. We need an another center and power forward. Unfortunately those are kinda hard to come by
Spurs not having a PF to run alongside Wemby put a ton of pressure on him to anchor every rim-run
That’s all funny but itnwas Knicks in 5.
It was written
They didn’t respect their opponent. That’s why they lost.
Dominated but lose 1-4.
This is about 1 tier below analytically winning.
Much more accountability than De’Aaron Fox
If they absolutely dominated for most of the series they would be champions now
“Dominated” lol
Just don’t think you can say you dominated most of the series when the only quarter you won in total was the 1st.
This is all summed up by a lack of experience. I made a post after the WCF saying that the Knicks were the biggest winners of the WCF because of it
I don’t understand why is this is such a big deal. Like others have pointed out teams make runs. Some at the begining, some at the end.
The knicks outscored the spurs 54-28 in the 2nd half of game 4 untill they got the lead, so they technically were losing the entire time but they outplayed their opponent in that stretch.
Jumping to a lead, then getting outplayed for a long stretch till relinquishing it time and time again and decisively losing the game at the end 4 out of 5 times, yet somehow you come out of it thinking you dominated just cuz you lead for a long time while being outplayed for a big part of it.
This just doesn’t make sense. You could say it was close and could’ve won but thinking you dominated is just nonsense
Because this sub hates Wemby and wants to see him fail
19 points on 19 shots in a game 7 of the finals.
I’m glad we don’t have to hear how he’s the goat anymore
UNLIKEABLE
Leading early in a game means nothing. They didn’t look dominant except in the 1st half of game 4.
Has Wemby been talking to Coach Atkinson?
I’m more of a baseball guy. This would be like a starting pitcher be like “I am perfect through the first 3 to 4 innings of every game, but when I load the bases, then walk in 2 batters on the loaded bases and then give up a bases clearing double, then reload the bases and give up a grand slam between the fifth and sixth innings of each game before I get pulled for a relief pitcher, that’s us being punished for errors so they shouldn’t really be earned runs because my giving up quality hits and walking the opposing team into runs is an error of intention for me, thus not ‘earned’ runs, so really, I pitch perfect games and then get screwed by ‘errors’ into an 8 ERA.”
He has flaws in his game, he lacks the stamina to replicate the early first quarter success in the second half and he can’t get it done without flagrant fouls and trumped up free throw opportunities.
He had one of the worst finals a star player has ever had and he’s talking about dominating a team that beat him 5-0 without ref intervention. Hes never gonna learn getting babied by the nba and the media.
The Spurs didn’t even dominate most of the series, they dominated one quarter, the Knicks would rally a little going into the half. Then the Spurs felt comfortable on the 3rd because they “Dominated most of the game” then they’d start feeling pressure in the 4th leading to them making stupid mistakes. Game 4 was the clearest example of this.
The fact they think they Dominated most of the series, then suddenly their mistakes were being punished hard is the problem. It wasn’t Ups and Downs. It was Up, slowly down and then suddenly trying to pull up again when it was too late
I don’t understand this idea that they dominated for most of the series.
If they were dominant in gaining their leads, surely the Knicks were dominant in erasing them? Which they did repeatedly?
Domination is just generally reserved for the leaders. “Coming back” is for comebacks. Discrediting one performance discredits the other. The Spurs dominated the majority, setting up the greatest comeback in history.
This is exactly what he needed. Losses like this are what make players in the future
Said it exactly how it is.
Knicks capitalised on it and we didn’t, plain and simple.
You learn and you go again
“This is what’s great about sports, you play to win the game. Hello? You play to win the game. You don’t play to just play it.” “That’s the great thing about sports. You play to win. And I don’t care if you don’t have any wins. You go play to win.”
Small margin of error but you have double digit leads in every game but still choke?
and now they have some experience too… so they’ll do EVEN WORSE next year. (/s)
If your mistakes and errors are punished such that you lose, in my book you weren’t dominating.
Jumping out to a large lead but not being able to keep it is not dominating
i hope they become a bit less cocky too. They’re young and arrogant, that’s normal, but they’d be dangerous if they found the right middle ground of just being confident enough while respecting their opponent
James harden: Analytically the spurs are up 5-0 lol
Why are people blaming fox for this series, yes he’s overpaid but people claim Wemby is the next goat but he has had 1 good second half in this whole series 😭😭
Sounds like you (and Mitch) choked a lot
Doesn’t matter, dude. What matters is who wins. Young players these days underestimate this and think, “well we were leading most of the game!”
No one cares. It’s either pass or fail. Win or lose
Spurs always choke in the 4th
If they dominated for most of the series they would have won
Wormby repeatedly keeps saying the Spurs dominated the the stats and the Knicks and complaining about having to go through about 100 game next season to get to the finals THE FRENCH elitist wants entitlement 🤣
Spurs played like they were in a 100 meter dash , they would straight up go for the haymaker without pacing themselves ; they also did this against OKC they were lucky that Chet was a lame duck the entire series
New York played it like a marathon , small bursts here and there ; exerted all their energy near the end when the game was close
They’re inexperienced at the end of the day, couldn’t defend when it came down to it, couldn’t attack when it came down to it. And no veterans to be reliable
The thing is as a Knicks fan…they could’ve easily closed out a few games. Each game they were ahead by a lot plus the refs were in their favor. The margin of error was simply them not closing it out.
That’s why experience matters.
Brunson doesn’t capitalize off of literally every single mistake the Spurs made without experience.
And the Spurs don’t make them with it.
“Most of the series”? You lost 4-1.
The Knicks winning in this manner is actually a bit of an enigma
Not of you‘re a Knicks fan. They’ve been a slow starting team for 2 seasons now. Lots of no show first quarters. Thats why not all of us were losing our minds with the deficits.
“Margin of error is very thin”
Fox : “I can make it bigger!”
Remember when the Lakers “dominated” most of the series against the nuggets? I assume this place will clown on the spurs as much?
He also talked about Brunson being an inspiration for him in this series and the resilience and experience of the Knicks vs the mistakes and inexperience of the Spurs. This is like what the fourth time in the last 2 days a reasonable quote has been stripped of all context to look bad? “Why doesn’t he ever praise the Knicks” he does it just doesn’t make headlines, click bait and out of context quotes make headlines.
Game is 48 minutes bro.
The errors are his legs fall apart after the 2nd quarter and he is terrible in the second half. Figure that out and you win it all
As soon as the first half buzzer went off in game 4 and the Knicks had the largest halftime deficit in postseason history, I threw $100 on them to win that game at +1600 odds.
I didn’t think they’d actually win, but I knew for a fact they would at least come back and make it a game so that I could cash out for a profit. But I didn’t even take the cash out because once the third quarter was almost over, I knew the spurs were going to choke it.
I have never bet more than like $10 on odds like that. But this Knicks team was different, especially at the Garden. I also won money on their game 4 comeback against the Cavs. The absolute comeback kids. I’m not sure why the odds never adjusted to that. They were being treated as any other team, when in fact they are not like any other team.
Honestly the larger the lead a team has in the NBA, the more scared I become for them. I have seen so many 20+ point leads blown because they get complacent and take their foot off the gas. The issue is the spurs lead by 10+ points in Q1 for ALL FIVE GAMES and still lost 4-1. Unacceptable
Sixers: we lost because we had to play game 7 vs Boston last Friday.
Cavs: we won all the games analytically.
Spurs: we dominated the series by losing 4 out of 5 with the refs in our pockets in all five games.
Everyone’s better than the Knicks.
The spurs need better conditioning, and a deeper or more strategically used bench if they are going to be playing such hard defense on the perimeter all game long to allow Wemby to defend the pain and play space.
The spurs need better coaching down the stretch, and a solid offensive hierarchy and plan. The spurs need to gain experience in controlling and changing the pace of the game to their benefit. The spurs need to manage the clock better and play the energy economy to their benefit.
The spurs need to create or develop skills or systems to enable more diversity of ball handlers without excess of turn overs. The spurs need to stop Fox from freezing his team out of the game and chucking threes (probably a conditioning issue as well).
Wemby needs refine his offensive game and develop a go to move. Wemby and the spurs need to simplify the offense and have a plan down the stretch offensively. The spurs need a true distributor or a back up PG that isn’t a liability on both ends.
The spurs need to massively improve their overall game management and player management, all the way from timeouts to rotation. The spurs need coaching.
That being said, this spurs team might be the most talented team in the league right now or very soon.
My outside perspective is that Jalen Brunson was the best closer in the series and the entirety of the knicks were more mentally tough! Castle, Harper, and Fox really should have been their go to at the end of games, but none of them were ready to be better than Jalen Brunson. Same goes for wemby but, damn, the weight of being the anchor on defense and the closer is not ideal on wemby. The moment that epitomizes this for me is that boneheaded turnover where he throws the ball into castle’s back. Not only was this a terrible mistake, but it should have never happened. I don’t know why you want your 7’5 center taking the ball up against the press trap with what is essentially 4 other guards on the floor. Fundamentally bad basketball, mistakes in high leverage moments, and the very odd philosophy of being up 30 points while averaging 14 seconds a possession: there was a maturity and toughness difference from the bench to the head coaches. Either way, very exciting for a gentleman’s sweep. and my respect for brunson has shot through the roof.
This is a good assessment
But it’s not just errors. It’s the will and focus to win. Knicks had that in bundles. Spurs 100% did not (except for in Gm 3).
They never recovered from their fuckups. Once they had a down, it was a free fall.
The cope is real
Non Vic.
Knicks are by far one of the most clutch teams I’ve ever seen.
JB truly has Ice in his veins
Spurs lose not Knicks win? Hahahahha
Spurs were up by double digits in 72% of their losses this year.
Wait is that is real voice?
Is this the first time in Wemby’s life, where it didn’t go according to his narrative? Excluding injuries, which aren’t necessarily anyone’s fault. He was raised from like 12 to be the star of whatever team he was on, got drafted number 1, beat every team in front of him to get to the finals, and then just got beat due to his and his teams mistakes.
honestly, just seems like the dude gets too tired
doesn’t really seem like much more than that? inexperience, sure, i guess. that seems overvalued tho
A lot of sore salty winners in here with some weird definitions of dominating. If the Spurs weren’t dominating, then I guess the Knicks just won 4 regular, uneventful games with nothing to really note about them.
He’s either gotta figure out how to be better than the 5th best 3pt shooter on his team or physically survive inside 8 feet against players like KAT.
Analytically you guys won
He will crush if he doesn’t get injured in the next few seasons. He’s not dumb and seems like will mature fast if learning from this year’s mistakes. but I think it also hinges on his ass hitting the gym to gain more control over his gumby arms. he looks goofy af playing, like remind me when i was 22 and looked like an cringey child
Classic tortoise and hare
Virtually got swept … yah 🥚 head u dominated. U lost in Mitchy head CHOKER
Idk why, but his voice reminds me of Xerxes from 300.
Everyone is better than Jalen Brunson, until it’s time to be better than Jalen Brunson 😅
Can’t blow double-digit leads in four of five games and expect it to end well. Even the game they won, the Spurs nearly blew a big margin.
Especially not when you keep losing them in the same ways.
Spurs: Presses NOS button
Knicks : “Too early”