June 10, 2026 • 10 mins
Rob Parker & Kelvin Washington react to Game 3 from the Knicks’ perspective and break down what went wrong offensively. Rob explains why he believes Jalen Brunson could be the biggest reason New York loses the series, calling out Brunson for playing too much hero ball in critical moments. Kelvin says Brunson suffered from “Mighty Mouse syndrome,” overcompensating against San Antonio’s size instead of trusting the Knicks’ system.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, I'm going to go We will get to that,
but I'm going to go here.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
And last night we saw why people have always questioned
and wonder if the Knicks are going to win a championship.
And Kelvin, I'm here to tell you, but the reason
the Knicks will lose this series will because of will
be because of Jalen Brunson. I believe that if we
(00:25):
go back to the Jalen Brunson Knicks and hero ball
and dribble dribble, dribble dribble and either shoot it or
or force it to a teammate late in the shot
clock for it to put up a shot, then the
Knicks are going to lose this And we got a
glimpse of that last night.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Wait a minute, he'scoring thirty two points.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
He matched Wimby, Right, No, Kevin, that's not what they
were doing, right, That's not when they were winning thirteen
in a row of bakers, doesn't.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
They weren't doing that.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
And here we are back in the same situation, and
I'll give you the bad brunch of numbers. His thirty
eight percent usage rate through three games is on pace
to be the highest and final series since Lebron in
twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
That was thirty eight point nine.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Brunson has more turnovers not than a bakery, than assists.
He has the same amount thirteen turnovers, thirteen assists.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
No good.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Brunton has scored eighty two points in the series You
ready on eighty one.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Shots eighty two points on. I don't want to take
that shots. I don't want to take that better.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Shooting just thirty seven percent from the field. Brunson's plus
minus they're talking about Remember, people were saying in New York,
he's the greatest nick ever.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
He's a grummer. He's the greatest.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
He's a great They wanted to put him up as
the greatest nick ever, even winning anything. Because he helped
him win Game one in San Antonio, people were talking
crazy Calvin plus minus in the series minus fourteen. Guess
what cat is? Plus thirty one? Who's the real MVP?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
At this point?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Brunton is the first player in NBA history to record
the following numbers in a three game span eighty plus
field goal attempts, sub forty percent field goal shooting, and
twelve or more turnovers when guarded by Stefan Castle. You're
(02:48):
ready in the NBA Finals, brunting and shooting thirty one percent,
six turnovers and four assists.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
If the Knicks don't win it.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
If the Knicks don't win this series, Kelvin, it'll be
pretty obvious as to what went wrong. And that will
be Jalen Brunson. As much as they loved that guy,
and he's made shots for them, and he's won games
in the fourth quarter, what do you have thirteen and
fourteen in Game one in the fourth quarter. I get it,
(03:18):
I get it. But there's a lot of bad brunching
stuff out there as well.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Here's the challenge, Rob, Here's what he's fighting with. He's
fighting with mighty man mighty mouse syndrome. And what I
mean is when Winby pushed his head down, it was
as if he was sonning them.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
They get you a little but out of here, you know.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
And then when you get Stefan Castle, remember you saw
that when he says, remember we were I think we
were next Toeae, but he just blew through them. Yeah,
Blue ran them over. They get you a little bit
out of here. And I think he was getting big
dog dog game. And the problem with that is when
you have the Napoleon mighty mouse syndrome. You take it personally,
and what you want to do is prove no, I'm tough,
(03:59):
No I'm better than, I'm stronger than. And of course,
his version of fighting back is with volume. His version
of fighting back is with shots. His version of fighting
back is by proving to you I'm gonna take you out,
you take you out via the buckets and winning this game.
The problem with that is, Bruh, you're going against the program.
(04:19):
I've been giving Mike Brown. Mike Brown credit because he
has switched the program. He understood what he had success.
What he saw being a Warriors assistant coach was how
they run out that high post. They'll throw it to Draymond,
they throw to Andrew Bogan, David Lee, all those guys.
And they also see, of course, what they do with Sabonis.
When he was up with Sacramento, a lot.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Of success there.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Sabonis would be one of the better guys in the
league getting triple doubles because going out of that Cats
started to get near triple doubles, getting a lot of assists. Obviously,
he's gonna board, he's gonna score. When they ran offense
through that, Jalen Brunson. Part of being that combo point
guard kind of thing is he forgot. And here's what
I mean. There's no way I can look at my
(04:57):
second best player, kar Anthony town and say, my man hasn't.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Scored in a fourth quarter. That's on me. I gotta
set him up with tom or two.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
I gotta say, get download, big fella, go eat right,
or just say I soo here you're rock. Go kill
these little dudes that keep putting on you. We got
a little mouse in the house. I can't have my
guy MICKL Bridges only getting five shots. MIKEL Bridges ain't
a guy in East twenty, but he can't get more
than five.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
And lastly, this is the most atrocious one.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Carlthony Towns cannot put up ten points in a ten
attempts robed in a finals game. Men them mom fifteen
in a finals game. My big dog has to have
fifteen shots because I have to keep him engaged. I'm
losing him. And point guards know that. That's one of
the troubles of us not having great point guards anymore.
(05:47):
We got a bunch of combo guards. Rob's point Chris Paulkner. Okay,
I gotta let Blake eat. Okay, I gotta get DeAndre
some oops to keep him excited on the defensive end.
All right, ray Sjon Rondo, I gotta feed the big fellas.
I gotta get ray On some shots. You know, when
you look at Darren Williams, you look at all the
Steve Nash, when you're just look at the guards that
we've had. Tyre's Halliburn, give him credit. He let everybody
else feast. And what did he do in the fourth quarter?
(06:09):
Rob takeover, make big shots. Jalen Brunton has to understand.
We're better is what if I were the Knicks, Mike Brown.
We're better when everyone's involved. When the ball is moving,
we're spreading them out. We're spreading weinby out, getting him
out of the paint, just sitting there because he's waiting
on you to attack or shoot a long shot.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Spreading the team out.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Then we're running the ball through cat and getting guys
excited because when you get to touch the ball field
the ball, you play defense better. It just goes, It
matriculates through the whole game, and then you are our closer.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
That's the game plan.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
We're up four to five plus or minus we're down
four to five, but we're in this thing. You close
this thing out. It's worked to the tune of thirteenth Straight.
So if it ain't broke, don't fix it. And again
I think he took it personally. Stefan Castle to aggressive
with him talking, smack, getting in his head, big.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Body him on the other when he would be on
the office box.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
What about the media, you know, gassing up cat? You
think that that played up.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I'm gonna say no to that. I know you mentioned that.
I want to say who mentioned that?
Speaker 4 (07:12):
First?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Call her?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
And then I think Afha mentioned it too.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I don't subscribe to that because I think he's too much.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Of a team player.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
And it said like my guys, he loves his guys,
But I do think he's subscribed to I'm sick of
the Spurs pushing me around his game. I'm sick of
them literally bulldozing me, and I'm gonna make it, take
it personally and show them when if.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
That's the case, I can trick you out your spot.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
And there's a song shot to my guy Sahai rapper
from Atlanta. He said, don't let them trick you off
the streets, meaning don't let them get you caught up
and you mess around and you know, lose. What you're
doing has been successful, and I think the Spurs have
tricked him off the streets and got him taking it
one on one and forgetting Oh shoot, let me get
back to what we do and have been doing well.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I just think there's a jail and brunching problem and
I and it's it's glossed over because of that Game one,
you know what I mean? It just it just is
like all the numbers, Kelvin, All the numbers are bad
except except for the what do you have it was
it thirteen or fourteen?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Fourteen?
Speaker 4 (08:13):
I think it was fourteen?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
And that fourth Okay, that's that's a big fourth quarter.
They win.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
That game set the tone of the series, right, I
get it. In Game two he had the shot, he
made the basket right down late.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yeah, But all the other numbers are bad. And when
they lose, you remember where we were when they lost
to Atlanta those two games. It was about Jalen Brunson
and the hero ball. And two it just doesn't look right.
This doesn't look like they're going to be able to
get it together and win and wear the Knicks, and
remember that that wasn't that long ago.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
And if you're pretty amazing, yeah, if you're Mike Brown,
you got to remind him of that. Hey, we all
know you're one of the better one on one scores.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
In the league. Your guy can get it to make
big plays. We know that.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
But we're better when this ball is moving. We're better
when guys get to touch it. And it ain't just
about shot attemps, rob It's about touching it right, just
feeling it, feels like you're a part of it. And
when guys are just standing around, you lose that juice,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
And it affects defense because you just kind of out
of it.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
You're not when the ball's moving, everybody touching, everybody eating
a little bit, and it keeps you active, keeps you engaged.
It helps on the defensive end, keeps heeps your psyche
in it. And again, that's one of the troubles I
believe with not having traditional point guards anymore, is that
guys sometimes lose sight of that. Steph Curry a combo guard,
you know some of the better players, and Edwards kind
(09:34):
of a combo guard, more of a two. But we
just don't have a lot of traditional point guards anymore
who know how to read the to Okay, let me
get let me let big dog eat a little bit,
all right, let me work it around here, Let's swing
it around, Let's get this guy shot.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Let's slow the pace up.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
We're missing that sometimes, Rob and it to me is evident,
and it has been evident with Jalen the last game
game and a half or so.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yeah, it's I'm convinced that people will Becky Hammon might
speak up. They might run back to Becky ham and
you know what I mean, And hey.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
I meant to bring that up. You're right, I've listen.
She's about to be like the seventy two Dolphins rocks.
You gonna pop off a cork if the Knicks lose,
to say, I told you a smaller guard.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
I told you the team.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
That's exactly what would happen, because that's what she said
from history. And you know they ran to her when
they went up too oh and whatnot and say, hey,
what do you say now?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Or whatever?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
And now it's just funny how one game can change everything.
But he just hasn't played well. When I just brought
up the big number eighty two points on eighty one shots.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
That's just not a lie.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
That ain't gonna cut it. Bro.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Nobody's asking you to be shooting your smaller guard against
big wings in the finals.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
I get it, but that ain't gonna cut it.
Well, I'm going to go We will get to that,
but I'm going to go here.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
And last night we saw why people have always questioned
and wonder if the Knicks are going to win a championship.
And Kelvin, I'm here to tell you, but the reason
the Knicks will lose this series will because of will
be because of Jalen Brunson. I believe that if we
(00:25):
go back to the Jalen Brunson Knicks and hero ball
and dribble dribble, dribble dribble and either shoot it or
or force it to a teammate late in the shot
clock for it to put up a shot, then the
Knicks are going to lose this And we got a
glimpse of that last night.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Wait a minute, he'scoring thirty two points.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
He matched Wimby, Right, No, Kevin, that's not what they
were doing, right, That's not when they were winning thirteen
in a row of bakers, doesn't.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
They weren't doing that.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
And here we are back in the same situation, and
I'll give you the bad brunch of numbers. His thirty
eight percent usage rate through three games is on pace
to be the highest and final series since Lebron in
twenty fifteen.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
That was thirty eight point nine.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Brunson has more turnovers not than a bakery, than assists.
He has the same amount thirteen turnovers, thirteen assists.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
No good.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Brunton has scored eighty two points in the series You
ready on eighty one.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Shots eighty two points on. I don't want to take
that shots. I don't want to take that better.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Shooting just thirty seven percent from the field. Brunson's plus
minus they're talking about Remember, people were saying in New York,
he's the greatest nick ever.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
He's a grummer. He's the greatest.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
He's a great They wanted to put him up as
the greatest nick ever, even winning anything. Because he helped
him win Game one in San Antonio, people were talking
crazy Calvin plus minus in the series minus fourteen. Guess
what cat is? Plus thirty one? Who's the real MVP?
Speaker 1 (02:21):
At this point?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Brunton is the first player in NBA history to record
the following numbers in a three game span eighty plus
field goal attempts, sub forty percent field goal shooting, and
twelve or more turnovers when guarded by Stefan Castle. You're
(02:48):
ready in the NBA Finals, brunting and shooting thirty one percent,
six turnovers and four assists.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
If the Knicks don't win it.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
If the Knicks don't win this series, Kelvin, it'll be
pretty obvious as to what went wrong. And that will
be Jalen Brunson. As much as they loved that guy,
and he's made shots for them, and he's won games
in the fourth quarter, what do you have thirteen and
fourteen in Game one in the fourth quarter. I get it,
(03:18):
I get it. But there's a lot of bad brunching
stuff out there as well.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Here's the challenge, Rob, Here's what he's fighting with. He's
fighting with mighty man mighty mouse syndrome. And what I
mean is when Winby pushed his head down, it was
as if he was sonning them.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
They get you a little but out of here, you know.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
And then when you get Stefan Castle, remember you saw
that when he says, remember we were I think we
were next Toeae, but he just blew through them. Yeah,
Blue ran them over. They get you a little bit
out of here. And I think he was getting big
dog dog game. And the problem with that is when
you have the Napoleon mighty mouse syndrome. You take it personally,
and what you want to do is prove no, I'm tough,
(03:59):
No I'm better than, I'm stronger than. And of course,
his version of fighting back is with volume. His version
of fighting back is with shots. His version of fighting
back is by proving to you I'm gonna take you out,
you take you out via the buckets and winning this game.
The problem with that is, Bruh, you're going against the program.
(04:19):
I've been giving Mike Brown. Mike Brown credit because he
has switched the program. He understood what he had success.
What he saw being a Warriors assistant coach was how
they run out that high post. They'll throw it to Draymond,
they throw to Andrew Bogan, David Lee, all those guys.
And they also see, of course, what they do with Sabonis.
When he was up with Sacramento, a lot.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Of success there.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Sabonis would be one of the better guys in the
league getting triple doubles because going out of that Cats
started to get near triple doubles, getting a lot of assists. Obviously,
he's gonna board, he's gonna score. When they ran offense
through that, Jalen Brunson. Part of being that combo point
guard kind of thing is he forgot. And here's what
I mean. There's no way I can look at my
(04:57):
second best player, kar Anthony town and say, my man hasn't.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Scored in a fourth quarter. That's on me. I gotta
set him up with tom or two.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
I gotta say, get download, big fella, go eat right,
or just say I soo here you're rock. Go kill
these little dudes that keep putting on you. We got
a little mouse in the house. I can't have my
guy MICKL Bridges only getting five shots. MIKEL Bridges ain't
a guy in East twenty, but he can't get more
than five.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
And lastly, this is the most atrocious one.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Carlthony Towns cannot put up ten points in a ten
attempts robed in a finals game. Men them mom fifteen
in a finals game. My big dog has to have
fifteen shots because I have to keep him engaged. I'm
losing him. And point guards know that. That's one of
the troubles of us not having great point guards anymore.
(05:47):
We got a bunch of combo guards. Rob's point Chris Paulkner. Okay,
I gotta let Blake eat. Okay, I gotta get DeAndre
some oops to keep him excited on the defensive end.
All right, ray Sjon Rondo, I gotta feed the big fellas.
I gotta get ray On some shots. You know, when
you look at Darren Williams, you look at all the
Steve Nash, when you're just look at the guards that
we've had. Tyre's Halliburn, give him credit. He let everybody
else feast. And what did he do in the fourth quarter?
(06:09):
Rob takeover, make big shots. Jalen Brunton has to understand.
We're better is what if I were the Knicks, Mike Brown.
We're better when everyone's involved. When the ball is moving,
we're spreading them out. We're spreading weinby out, getting him
out of the paint, just sitting there because he's waiting
on you to attack or shoot a long shot.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Spreading the team out.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Then we're running the ball through cat and getting guys
excited because when you get to touch the ball field
the ball, you play defense better. It just goes, It
matriculates through the whole game, and then you are our closer.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
That's the game plan.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
We're up four to five plus or minus we're down
four to five, but we're in this thing. You close
this thing out. It's worked to the tune of thirteenth Straight.
So if it ain't broke, don't fix it. And again
I think he took it personally. Stefan Castle to aggressive
with him talking, smack, getting in his head, big.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
Body him on the other when he would be on
the office box.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
What about the media, you know, gassing up cat? You
think that that played up.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
I'm gonna say no to that. I know you mentioned that.
I want to say who mentioned that?
Speaker 4 (07:12):
First?
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Call her?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
And then I think Afha mentioned it too.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I don't subscribe to that because I think he's too much.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
Of a team player.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
And it said like my guys, he loves his guys,
But I do think he's subscribed to I'm sick of
the Spurs pushing me around his game. I'm sick of
them literally bulldozing me, and I'm gonna make it, take
it personally and show them when if.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
That's the case, I can trick you out your spot.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
And there's a song shot to my guy Sahai rapper
from Atlanta. He said, don't let them trick you off
the streets, meaning don't let them get you caught up
and you mess around and you know, lose. What you're
doing has been successful, and I think the Spurs have
tricked him off the streets and got him taking it
one on one and forgetting Oh shoot, let me get
back to what we do and have been doing well.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I just think there's a jail and brunching problem and
I and it's it's glossed over because of that Game one,
you know what I mean? It just it just is
like all the numbers, Kelvin, All the numbers are bad
except except for the what do you have it was
it thirteen or fourteen?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Fourteen?
Speaker 4 (08:13):
I think it was fourteen?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
And that fourth Okay, that's that's a big fourth quarter.
They win.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
That game set the tone of the series, right, I
get it. In Game two he had the shot, he
made the basket right down late.
Speaker 4 (08:28):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Yeah, But all the other numbers are bad. And when
they lose, you remember where we were when they lost
to Atlanta those two games. It was about Jalen Brunson
and the hero ball. And two it just doesn't look right.
This doesn't look like they're going to be able to
get it together and win and wear the Knicks, and
remember that that wasn't that long ago.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
And if you're pretty amazing, yeah, if you're Mike Brown,
you got to remind him of that. Hey, we all
know you're one of the better one on one scores.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
In the league. Your guy can get it to make
big plays. We know that.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
But we're better when this ball is moving. We're better
when guys get to touch it. And it ain't just
about shot attemps, rob It's about touching it right, just
feeling it, feels like you're a part of it. And
when guys are just standing around, you lose that juice,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
And it affects defense because you just kind of out
of it.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
You're not when the ball's moving, everybody touching, everybody eating
a little bit, and it keeps you active, keeps you engaged.
It helps on the defensive end, keeps heeps your psyche
in it. And again, that's one of the troubles I
believe with not having traditional point guards anymore, is that
guys sometimes lose sight of that. Steph Curry a combo guard,
you know some of the better players, and Edwards kind
(09:34):
of a combo guard, more of a two. But we
just don't have a lot of traditional point guards anymore
who know how to read the to Okay, let me
get let me let big dog eat a little bit,
all right, let me work it around here, Let's swing
it around, Let's get this guy shot.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Let's slow the pace up.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
We're missing that sometimes, Rob and it to me is evident,
and it has been evident with Jalen the last game
game and a half or so.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yeah, it's I'm convinced that people will Becky Hammon might
speak up. They might run back to Becky ham and
you know what I mean, And hey.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
I meant to bring that up. You're right, I've listen.
She's about to be like the seventy two Dolphins rocks.
You gonna pop off a cork if the Knicks lose,
to say, I told you a smaller guard.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
I told you the team.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
That's exactly what would happen, because that's what she said
from history. And you know they ran to her when
they went up too oh and whatnot and say, hey,
what do you say now?
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Or whatever?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
And now it's just funny how one game can change everything.
But he just hasn't played well. When I just brought
up the big number eighty two points on eighty one shots.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
That's just not a lie.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
That ain't gonna cut it. Bro.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Nobody's asking you to be shooting your smaller guard against
big wings in the finals.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
I get it, but that ain't gonna cut it.
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