Five Takeaways from the New York Knicks Game 2 Win Over the Spurs | NBA FINALS

The Old Man and the Three

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🗓️ 6 June 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Cam Johnson (Denver Nuggets) and Tommy Alter break down the New York Knicks’ (Jalen Brunson, Karl-Anthony Towns, Mikal Bridges) Game 2 win in the NBA Finals over the San Antonio Spurs (Victor Wembanyama, Stephon Castle, Dylan Harper) to take a 2-0 lead and share their takeaways heading into Game 3 at MSG.

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0:33.2	Today, we have the host of Old Man in the Three in the Building, Cam Johnson. We are doing our second finals recap, live from the 120 degree Phoenix, Arizona heat. How are you feeling, man?
0:50.4	I'm good. It's early Saturday morning, so it's a nice 85 here, a high of 105 today. It won't be too bad.
0:57.3	I'm back in New York now. The energy is extremely high in the city, New York. There's a lot to talk about. And so we might as well get into it. I think the format we had after game one was fun, five things.
1:11.7	I'm curious for your first thing.
1:13.8	What was the first thing that stood out to you about last night?
1:17.5	Number one, first and foremost by far was the physicality of the game.
1:23.4	Both teams were turning up maximum physicality, ball very hansy um post defense very
1:32.5	handsy pushing and shoving it definitely dictated the flow of the game obviously people
1:37.8	were complaining about the refs especially in the first half did you think it what what were they
1:42.2	complaining about they were saying that the they were the, they were saying, they were saying the refs were in San Antonio's favor. Now granted, it's like, it's Twitter. So, I mean, people are going to say whatever they want. I'm curious, though, from the flow standpoint, though, did you think it mucked up the flow? Or did you just think it was just physical? because you could tell, like, especially in the second half, they just weren't calling anything.
2:01.0	It felt like it was it controlled the
2:06.5	flow like it was what drove the flow and um you know both teams were trying to get into the ball and a
2:14.5	half court especially just press pressing up, pressing up,
2:18.0	handsy, handsy, handsy.
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