Hour 2: Knicks as a Team

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Ray and Julian keeping his company producing the program as well, but you can check out the show of course on YouTube. You could tap in there and you could hit me up on X at Dan Gross at GRACA. The topic as you would expect, Nickerbocker basketball as they come out on top game number 1 last night in San Antonio. They win it by 10 Their 12th consecutive victory in this postseason. Who is stopping this team now? And again, it just defies logic. The run that this team has gone on here over the last month plus in winning 12 consecutive games, 11 of them by double figures. It doesn't matter what the deficit is. They found themselves down 14 in the third quarter yesterday. Jalen Brunson banged up in the first half, had to go back to the locker room, all those things. But the steady diet of contributors made it possible for this team to get back in it and win the game like they have done so often and so frequent. Now they stand just three wins away from an elusive NBA championship. I said this earlier in the show and I'll repeat it for those that are just joining us now or maybe if they're going back on the Espn New York app and they're still trying to catch up on that first hour. Normally in a situation like this, when you are the road team to begin a series, the goal is of course in a best of seven format. You want to get a split in the first two. Get the home court advantage back, go in there, get one of the first two, you feel good about yourself. Knicks accomplished that already. Okay, they win game one last night, they've got the home court advantage. So normally you would think, okay, tomorrow game doesn't mean as much, it's a gravy game, whatever happens happens. I don't feel that way. I think tomorrow's game could pretty much end this series. Because if the Knicks win this game tomorrow, they're not losing the series. They're not.
They win tomorrow night, that's gonna be their 13th consecutive win. You really mean to tell me a team that has won 13 straight games is then all of a sudden going to lose 4 out of the next 5?
Not happening.
Not happening at all. And so from that standpoint, I say absolutely, you're the Knicks, win this game tomorrow as if your life is on the line. And of course, they're gonna go out there and try to do just that. But that is why I think this game is so significant tomorrow. You know, it's not just, hey, you're up 1-0, you could go up 2-0, you're halfway to your goal, no, uh-uh. This is pretty much game set match, checkmate, whatever you want to call it tomorrow night. And why shouldn't you feel confident if you're a Knicks fan that they won't go out there and once again find a way to be able to do it? Because there were times, especially during crunch time last night in that game, where guys in San Antonio uniforms and the head coach as well, who's only in his first full season, they had a little bit of that deer in the headlights look, to where things were starting to happen a little too fast for them and they didn't know what answers were necessarily going to be able to be provided. You know, Julian Ciampini, he was great last night, especially in that first half, draining threes, corner threes. But you know what? Second half, not so much. And it's funny too, because once they got him off that spot in the corner, turns out that it was a lot more difficult to make threes, not just him, but everybody else in a Spurs uniform. Isn't that funny how that happens? And we were even talking about that earlier in the week, Bart and I, like the Knicks and the Spurs were like one, two in the NBA in terms of frequency of popping up those corner threes. So you know that that's something that they prefer, and that goes back to scouting to where you need to be able to get them off their marks and disrupt what makes them comfortable. It took the Knicks a while to maybe get that going a little bit, but once they locked in when they needed to, you saw the results.