Maybe just maybe Jordan was so great that he made his teams look more “super” than they really were? _________________ Best Classical Best Films Best Paintings
Would LOVE to the Knicks pull this off. Would be so good for the NBA. Very interesting matchup. With Castle, Harper, and Wemby still developing they have to potential to be scary good for years to come so hoping they get knocked off this year.
Maybe I’m delusional but these games have been so close the Spurs may still pull this off, similar to Giannis (in this case would be Wemby) going nuclear in the Finals against the Phx Suns and reeling off 4 straight after going down 0-2? Do I think the odds are against it? Of course. But when you have a player as transcendent and impactful as Wemby, who hasn’t had a great finals so far (yet Spurs are still plus with him on the floor), it can still happen even if a long shot at this point.
That said, the Knicks are on a roll, are so clutch and a championship appears more and more inevitable. Beating them 4 over the next 5????
As awesome as Wemby is, he still spends too many plays on the perimeter or mid range shots when he should be utterly unstoppable and relentless on lobs and closer to the basket, and spend a higher percentage of plays on those. I don’t understand why he settled for that last shot last night when he is 9 feet tall. With one last chance, you should be taking your highest percentage shot where you have your greatest advantage.
He needs to figure out a way to not get out positioned or moved away from the basket by stronger bigs. This happens a little too much and he should not consistently have games where he is getting anything less than, say, 12-13 rebounds especially while playing 40 mins. 8, 9 rebounds is pretty unacceptable for his height and wingspan advantage.
He also needs to work some more on his conditioning this off-season — which I know he does — but there is still work to do as he seems to start wearing down once he surpasses 30, 35 mins and this is surely a factor in him settling for more perimeter or mid range plays later in the game and lacking more energy it takes to gather more rebounds.
These issues give me some hesitation in decisively anointing him as the very best player in the NBA (yet). It’s really really close between him and Jokic…
KAT is having a helluva run and really making things tough for Wemby. He is on track for Finals MVP so far…
Even though I’m pulling for Wemby and the Spurs to somehow find a way, the Knicks are great to watch and very deserving of the title _________________ Best Classical Best Films Best Paintings
God that was pretty incredible (the shot making) but also some of the stupidest “modern” basketball I’ve seen this year… FFS Spurs, just attack the damn basket the last 18 mins — not only do you have a 9 foot tall Alien, you will make more shots than can be caught up to after already being up 20-30 pts, PLUS will probably draw the Knicks into too much foul trouble to be able to mount the physical defense (for fear of fouling out) that they applied as it got closer
But also the refs just blatantly blew it, presumably got swept up into the excitement of the Garden and didn’t want to be that ref that calls the Knicks for foul (like for example the obvious blown call on Fox’s climactic fast break that would’ve swung and probably won the game back for the Spurs).
They of course gave the Spurs a (probably, arguably) more favorable whistle earlier on, but in these very very important plays near the end of the game that cost a team the game one way or the other… they suddenly ignore the rules and the inconsistency is ridiculous…
An epic come back by the Knicks regardless that showed a lot of heart and “never say die” character, and Brunson and Onunoby were just awesome, as well as Alvarado and then KAT at the end, but God damn that was both historically awesome and annoying too at the same time… _________________ Best Classical Best Films Best Paintings
Tempting to say Brunson with his clutch shot making throughout and near 30 PPG, while being heart and soul and leader of the team — and I think he has a case for all these reasons — but he is also shooting just under 40% for the series so far and probably will need to clean that up to like .425-plus to have a shot over Anunoby (plus OGs defense has been valuable, something you can’t say for Brunson, and OG also has what will likely become among the most iconic shots in Finals history with his last second tip in, especially if assuming the Knicks go on to win the championship).
Wemby probably next in line right now despite being down 3-1 … if the Spurs can somehow recover…
I still think the Spurs can pull this off, if they can manage to get over that collapse — 2 of 3 at home and they have to remain confident in themselves that they were dominating that game before going stupid, and have had pretty much just as legit a claim to all 4 games as the Knicks have. So if they can psych themselves back into it, with Wemby leading the way, and not play such dumb basketball, they can still do it.
Obviously odds are against it and the Knicks should take this in 6, maybe even 5 if this Spurs loss is just too deflating and they lay an egg at home.
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