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having a second ball handler was the antidote to all the ball pressure.

really interesting to see what happens in the next game. And it will be a huge point of emphasis in the offseason. We need another guy that can dribble through ball pressure. Westbrook/ Schroeder

But this team!!!! This team is special with the way they have pushed against the script and just battled and battled until the end. Many said they were about to or simply crying, I can definitely understand. This is really inspiring, considering how unfair the whistle has been.

What a team!!! What an amazing win!!!

BlueKnickers wrote:Spurs are young. They will win their rings. But not this year

If they keep this attitude, I hope they win nothing. I was truly pulling for them against OKC, but then they started copying them and now they have turned themselves into a very dirty team that it’s too easy to root against.

Knicksfan wrote:

BlueKnickers wrote:Spurs are young. They will win their rings. But not this year

If they keep this attitude, I hope they win nothing. I was truly pulling for them against OKC, but then they started copying them and now they have turned themselves into a very dirty team that it’s too easy to root against.

I agree. They have stigmatized themselves by their actions. The one neanderthall who is impressed by their bully tactics is Shaq which comes as no surprise.

Wemby is an intelligent person and he's only 22 so he will grow up, but his joker-like smirk when Brunson bounced off the floor and confronted him exposed an inner quality that may be who he really is at this time.

Wemby has good reason to feel entitled, because he is. But character is shown not by how entitled you are, but by how much you show your entitlement.

Wemby is showing he thinks he can do anything he wants without consequence. The NBA has enabled this and Wemby is carrying his privilege poorly this series.

Alpha1971 wrote:

Knicksfan wrote:We are 3-1 against the Spurs, the refs and the whole NBA. Wow. I sometimes complain about the refs and the NBA, but on this series the fix has been so freaking obvious that it’s just sad for the sport.

But this team!!!! This team is special with the way they have pushed against the script and just battled and battled until the end. Many said they were about to or simply crying, I can definitely understand. This is really inspiring, considering how unfair the whistle has been.

What a team!!! What an amazing win!!!

When the Knicks wrap this up in 5, I may loose interest in the NBA. I hate all the gambling partnershios the league has. The sport is clearly corrupt. Let's get this chip and I'll always watch the team but with so much less interest in the league. I grew up a Yankee fan and the MLBs and Yankees greed has turned me off and I haven't watched a baseball game in 5 years. There is life without sports.

I've been saying for years I want to win one more time this lifetime so I can let it go and move on.

This feeling has been building for about 5 years since every broadcast was spammed by that douchey guy in the FanDuel ads. The gambling issue is toxic and the sport is never coming back from the cliff it has gone over as a result.

Basketball was a brilliant invention. It is a sport capable of real wonder and beauty. But if being a fan of a team includes having to contend with hyper-capitalist agendas it no longer feels like what's at stake is wins and losses, but bottom lines.

I don't trust anything I watch on the court any longer and never expect quality officiating. It has sapped all of my confidence in the integrity of the league. It does not require NBA head office conspiracies for there to be corruption. In fact, that is the whole point: anyone can be corrupted and that's more dangerous than any mafia fantasies about Adam Silver (but, yeah, fck that guy too anyway). The real mafia is legalized gambling in sports. It requires no obvious collusion to corrupt everything it touches.

Every ref is under suspicion now as far as I'm concerned. It is too easy for dirty money to make an offer these guys can't refuse and there will never be any way to trace the laundered money that gets offered for their services.

How was it possible to call two fouls against KAT in the first minute of this game? HOW? The second one was not even remotely passable as a call.

Same thing Game 3, they took KAT out with 4 fouls early in the game.

First two games, KAT outplayed Wemby, so this was obvious manipulation to give the Spurs a chance to extend the series. Never seen anything more blatantly corrupt in my life.

So, yes, Fck the NBA. Please win this chip fellas so I can kiss off this mafia-enriched by-product of our dying civilization.

Alpha1971 wrote:

nycericanguy wrote:Jose alvarado came up huge

Que Linda, que Linda bandera, la bandera Puertoreiquena.

You Boricua?

Knicksfan wrote:

BlueKnickers wrote:Spurs are young. They will win their rings. But not this year

If they keep this attitude, I hope they win nothing. I was truly pulling for them against OKC, but then they started copying them and now they have turned themselves into a very dirty team that it’s too easy to root against.

Wouldn't say the team is dirty but they are bratty and obnoxious. They are young but the league is allowing Wemby to be Wembeed. Well who knows how this goes we all thought OKC would be a dynasty and now they are losing Hargenatein and Dort and maybe others. Who knows SA takes a step back next playoffs and Wemby is so tall wait until he suffers the inevitable injuries. No guarantee they will be a dynasty either. They are going to have to lock in Wemby, Castle, Harper in a few years, what are there draft and cap assets. OKC has draft assets to improve with major talent And other western teams too

Knixkik wrote:

Alpha1971 wrote:J Ellis from Knicks of Time Podcast, thanks Yabusele for waiving his no trade clause helping us get Alvarado. !!

The unsung hero to some degree tonight. He has been exactly what we need at various times since being traded to the Knicks, and no better example than tonight.

I have been a big critic of his (still am). Short in stature but big balls, big heart. No one said it during the game but when he boxed out wemby he tried a single leg take down on wemby (who flopped)

technomaster wrote:

Knixkik wrote:

Alpha1971 wrote:J Ellis from Knicks of Time Podcast, thanks Yabusele for waiving his no trade clause helping us get Alvarado. !!

The unsung hero to some degree tonight. He has been exactly what we need at various times since being traded to the Knicks, and no better example than tonight.

Tho if that move hadn’t been made, it’d have been Kolek time. Remember that Kolek showed smarts and youthful energy during the NBA Cup win.

But absolutely, Alvarado was a game changer. It’s something the Knicks have needed vs the Spurs press.

Took nads on Browns part and was a brilliant move. In game 3 spurs pressed everyone effectively including Hart and Bridges. In the past those guys were sufficient pressure valves but the spurs have 3 guys (4 if you include Bryant) who have size and can pressure the ball. Bringing in Jose helped a lot though it cost us in other ways. Fortunately spurs kept chucking 3 throwing their size advantage out the window for offensive rebounds.