Awful officiating. GREAT coaching move.
And then…
ICE MAN ANUNOBY shows again how insanely good a basketball player he is by knocking down three of the biggest free throws this series.
At the bare minimum, you could say that the Knicks didn’t get a great whistle in Game 2. This call below is one that they forced the refs to get right. A crucial challenge, initiated by NYK assistant Jordan Brink. “Jordan, he's been a master at this, Mike Brown said after Game 2.
“And I've said it before, man. I've got great assistants, even guys sitting behind the bench, my young guys. I know I'm scared to death that one of these teams are going to poach them, poach my guys.
“Surprised nobody has come at Chris Jent for a head job yet. The guy's won Summer League as a coach. He's a lead assistant here. I can go down the line talking about all my guys.
“But Jordan is consistent. He's been doing this now two years in a row. I rely totally on him. Every once in a while I lose my mind, you know, get emotional, and try to stick it to the refs, even though I like all of them, but that never
works. So I try like heck to follow Jordan's lead, and it was 100 percent his call.”
Spurs were on 14-0 and had tied the game, 97-97, at the time of the call. Instead of Spurs getting the ball, OG Anunoby got three free throws and knocked them down.
The Knicks just overcame one of the worst officiated games you will ever see and sent a 60+ win team down 0-2 on the road.
The Knicks are a special basketball team.
RUBIO: The video you just showed me now he was not falling asleep
LIEU: So you're lying again? You're lying to Congress, Secretary Rubio. Here's video from a French news channel mocking Trump for falling asleep at a Memorial Day ceremony.
Buck Williams, who played for Rick Adelman for 5 seasons with the @trailblazers, on Rick:
"I never met a coach who, with only a few words, made as great an impact as Rick did. That’s going to be his legacy -- the impact he had on people lucky enough to be around him."
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