De'Aaron Fox on no team coming back from 0-2 at home and how to overcome that:
"We just have to try to make history..."
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Jeremy Lin says "inexperience" and "fatigue" completely ruined the Spurs in the final 30 seconds of Game 2:
"The Spurs have so much heart. 14-0 run to come back into the game, but the last 30 seconds, just so much inexperience — whether you want to call it youth, whether you want to call it fatigue, it just wasn't it. The first play: another isolation for Wemby with 30 seconds, tough shot over Mitchell Robinson. Then you have a turnover, then you have a foul. I mean, they had the game where you have the ball with 12 seconds left, it's a tie game, there's no way you should be able to ever lose that game. And so to me, if the roles were reversed, the Knicks get the ball, what do they do? They will immediately find Brunson and he will immediately find the mismatch that he wants. But the Spurs, when they get the ball, they're not really sure. So Wemby's dribbling up, Castle's not even looking for it, they don't know who's going to take charge, is there a timeout to be called or not. It just seemed, as Wemby said, very blurry."
Wemby is getting all the shit because he’s the face of the franchise…
But LITERALLY EVERYONE (minus Dylan Harper) are playing like dog shit.
It’s a team effort dog shit 2 games.
still a lot of series left so wemby has time to prove he’s a true outlier but this matchup with KAT is why i didn’t feel like it was his time yet. that poise and refinement is gonna come with time. took KAT 11 years. probably won’t take wemby that long but it’s a process
Timeout Knicks.
The Spurs have cranked up the pace and cut the New York lead to four, fueled by a beautiful hesitation move from Stephon Castle that left the defense frozen and the crowd roaring.
He’s gotta go in his head to find reasons to hate them. He didn’t hate the timberwolves even Naz. But he respected them. Something’s off and I don’t know what. Does he know?
The pendulum may have swung too far in the other direction for Victor Wembanyama.
After taking criticism for forcing 21 shots and playing too much hero ball in Game 1, Wemby has attempted just 4 field goals in 18 minutes tonight. The result: only 7 points and a Spurs offense that at times looks hesitant to feature its biggest weapon.
Moving away from isolation-heavy basketball was necessary.
Removing your franchise player from the offense isn’t.
The Spurs have to find ways to get him touches in the paint, let him operate from the elbows, and force New York’s defense to react. 🧵
We started talking about his girlfriend and he started playing badly. He also let Christian’s pray over him. We gotta start ignoring the gf again and do Islamic prayers. He has a mental block right now. Iono!
If you go 6/21 you go 6/21 who cares you’re 22 in the finals but don’t go out like a mouse man
I know it doesn’t help that his team refuses to get him the ball in his spots but he’s also made 0 effort to demand it
@Zhlgpy0 You don’t even believe that which is why you keep bringing up some Black Dad. But rejecting her obvious Blackness will hopefully make you feel….something lol Good luck with it sis. Be well🥹😘