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Larry as we begin the stretch runner the
NBA season what is wrong with the Spurs
defense just when you thought they're
kind of coming together a major setback
tonight especially the third quarter
when no one hit the offensive glass no
one got back in transition no one
guarded the perimeter what is going on
me personally I think it was more of the
first half when the Spurs were outscored
by nine and a half time they just kind
of got knocked back you know got punched
in the face and they could never recover
because if you look at third quarter
Knicks only one at 32 30 total rebounds
were 12 12
fast-break points were two nothing New
York Somy it was all in the first half
but what I think was the biggest issue
tonight three-point shooting Spurs
entered the game first in three-point
percentage at 40 points 7 the Knicks
were 28th at 33% but the Knicks made 16
the night Spurs only made 6 that's 48 to
18 points so to me it was three-point
shooting in a career night for one young
man on the Knicks now the Spurs are the
worst road record of all the Western
Conference team right now in the playoff
picture
how many more row games can they win
before the regular season comes to an
end and they only have what 10 left at
this point it's hard to say I'm 4 or
less maybe I mean if they were
optimistic you would say five and five
yeah obviously you're not I'm not
because they haven't proven that they're
a good road team so they have nine left
here's what I thought was gonna happen I
thought they would beat the Knicks
tonight sure and then lose to Brooklyn
tomorrow cuz Brooklyn's the better team
course so now it was probably going to
happen they lost the Knicks tonight
they'll probably beat the Nets tomorrow
which is just bizarre but of their nine
Road games left only two teams have
losing records at home Cleveland and
Atlanta everybody else wins at home so
it's not going to be easy for the Spurs
all right what did you think of the
NBA's last two-minute report that said
the officials got it right down the
stretch when Kawhi literally stole the
show from damar in his return to Toronto
I mean I think they got it right and he
did him and he's he poked it away Kyle
Lowry came in and kind of bouncing
around Kawhi got it and went in for the
slam I mean it's definitely not the
outcome we wanted to see but I think the
league got it right well and what's
interesting about all that they were
later about a back court ruled that the
replay proved the officials got that
right as well but I think it was just
frustrating for st. Jose tomorrow night
and you had a chance to ice the game at
the end and Kauai steals it from him
steals the show
NBA ratings are down league-wide
according to report by Street and Smith
Business Journal Sports Business Journal
ten percent on the average but the Spurs
are down 34 percent on games before the
all-star break why I well I think
they're down because they're just not
the Spurs that we've been watching all
these years dominate the West you know
win NBA championships win conference
championships are just not the same
thing thing and it's interesting I think
overall the ratings are down in the NBA
one I think people are just kind of
tired of Golden State yep and also I
think LeBron moving to the west coast
that means people have to stay up later
on the East Coast now to watch them they
don't want to do that so I think that
suffers cuz in some markets like Dallas
Mavericks their ratings are up because a
looka right the Denver Nuggets ratings
are up because they're the women during
me alright and the other reason got to
remember there's no Manu the mohkumat or
ever you could argue he's not there and
everything brings down viewership I
think some people still having a hard
time and just in general that the big
three are no longer exactly but now
literally because Tony's yeah cuz Tony's
San Antonio commanders were enjoying the
best start as far as popularity of any
team the new alliance of American
football until some ages spoke out and
said the league missed payday last
Friday only to announcement to investor
the start of the week pumping 250
million dollars into the league and
suddenly the players who missed checks
are being paid are you buying this
administrated glit you know it seems a
little weird but I will say this years
ago when I was working for in a
different industry with a big company
something similar happened and it took
us an extra week to get her paychecks
and after that everything was fine so
but you didn't get a 250 million dollar
invested in two days later Darden is a
billionaire sure he knows how to invest
I can't see him forking over two hundred
and fifty million dollars to something
that's gonna fail in his opinion if
something is feeling I don't see that
happen or unless he's guaranteed
something else outside of this league it
could be because the NFL is supporting
this league so I'm just saying as
Wester why would you invest in two
hundred fifty million dollars in a
product you're not really sure about
just yet because the tennis is finding
San Antonio is not doing that well
Elsa wrestling right and as it does it
forward the sports guy
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