Hello and welcome to the Game Theory podcast.

I'm here with Sam Vistini.

Tonight we are breaking down game one of the NBA finals.

And honestly, I think that's all we're going to be doing here for about 30 minutes and maybe 40 minutes.

Who knows?

The New York Knicks take game one in San Antonio against the Spurs 105 to 95.

Bryce, how you doing tonight what what a what a weird like stop starty game it was fun like this is the kind of game where my brain really gets going because

watching the spurs try to throw 45 different looks at Jalen Brunson all night was so

fun and so interesting to watch.

Both teams kind of struggled to really get some like momentum and juice going.

Like really the only major run outside of the huge one in the fourth for the Knicks that I can think of was

the 20 to three run at the end of the first for the Spurs. And then the Knicks just fought back,

man. What is your biggest kind of takeaway here about this series after game one? Yeah, I mean,

first and foremost, it is just, it's fun basketball to break down.

I was watching some regular season basketball earlier today for a different project.

And it was kind of funny watching a regular season, just a random regular season game after I've been watching so much playoff basketball.

Because just the intensity level, the, you know, how every single shot is contested. You can't get an easy transition

look because somebody's sprinting back and all of that. So playoff basketball is just so much

fun. And I also am just like, it's so nice not to be a fan of a team. All I really care about

in the series is that I don't look like an idiot with my prediction,

which isn't looking very good right now.

But ultimately,

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