Now, last night, did the Thunder look a little flat, sure.

They were not dealing with the amount of rest advantage that the Knicks are having over Cleveland.

The Oklahoma City Thunder had about six days of rest.

Six, yeah.

And the San Antonio Spurs had three days of rest.

Obviously, the Cleveland Cavaliers are dealing with one day of rest, and the Yankees, the Knicks, are dealing with more than a week's worth of rest. Since 1985, there have been 65

series in which one team has five or more days of rest, and then the other team only has

one day of rest. In that game, the following game, the team with more rest is 48 and 17.

Yeah.

So as much as there is that risk of being flat, there is that risk of Cleveland stealing a game one,

they're more in the, I guess, the groove of playing basketball every other day and the Knicks aren't.

It's not like the track records tell you this is going to go bad for the Knicks.

No, it doesn't. It actually says the other because you're healthy, you're rested,

you've been playing basketball, I'm sure, on a pickup type fashion or a simulated game type

fashion, but not with the same kind of intensity. And so you're not putting like the same kind

of stress on your body.

And fatigue is real when you get to this point in the season because you've already had an 82 game regular season.

You've been through two series in the postseason.

And for the Cavaliers, they've been deep series.

And so fatigue at some point catches you.

Now, it might not be game one, but at some point it definitely catches you. But game one is going to be most interesting for me for the Knicks, because we talked about this in the last segment, how there is an urgency and how there's a win now or when are you going to win type of mentality. I think they know that. I don't think they're going into this game saying, you know, let's just take it one game at a time. I think they're saying we have to win this game and play with the same kind of urgency that we did against the 76ers and at the end of the Atlanta series. Otherwise, once it gets out of your hands, it's anybody's series. So I think there's an urgency for this next team that is necessary and they're

going to rise to it. They've played with it, that's for sure. I mean, this seven-game run that they're on,

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