'YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT IT IS!' 😳 - Perk says Game 4 is MUST-WIN for the Knicks | First Take

[00:00:00]And Perk is game four a must win for New York tonight.

[00:00:03]>> You damn right it is. You damn right it is. Whoever wins this game wins the series. And if you're the Knicks, you're approaching this as if it's no tomorrow. Otherwise, winning the two games on the road don't even matter.

[00:00:19]Right? And and when you think about it, you want to you want to bring your level you want to get confidence back, right?

[00:00:25]Within your locker room. And you don't want to keep giving confidence to the San Antonio Spurs. Right? You don't want to keep giving them hope. You want to come in, you want to smash the gas. And by the way, to the Nick fan base, this is your time. This is your time. No more excuses. For throwing y'all best player down to the ground.

[00:00:43]>> Mushing him in the face.

[00:00:45]>> Mush Whatever you want to call it. He didn't get a penalty.

[00:00:48]>> So, that shows you that, hey, Victor Wembanyama is important. He's >> I wasn't saying it like it was light. I was saying it like it was very disrespectful.

[00:00:55]>> It was disrespectful.

[00:00:56]>> to just mush him in the face like that.

[00:00:58]What?

[00:00:58]>> going to do about it?

[00:00:59]>> What would you do do about it?

[00:01:00]>> Well, well, look at you.

[00:01:01]>> Well, well, well, well, well.

[00:01:03]>> What are you going to do about it?

[00:01:04]>> What the crowd going to do about it?

[00:01:05]>> You didn't you I told you how I felt about the energy in game three.

[00:01:08]>> This late time to show up and show out.

[00:01:11]>> Uh this is a much bigger game. Kendrick, I disagree with you. This is a much bigger game for San Antonio. San Antonio loses tonight they're not winning the series. Okay, they're not going to beat the Knicks three in a row. And I've said this for weeks radio here. I'll say it again.

[00:01:24]The Knicks, if they when they get to three and they have a game in their building to win a championship, they're not losing a game.

[00:01:31]They didn't lose in May of 8th of 1970 when they killed the Lakers. If they're here 3-2 up next Tuesday or whatever that night is, Tuesday, right? If they're up 3-2, the Spurs ain't winning a game.

[00:01:42]So, if the Spurs don't win tonight, they're not coming here 3-2 down and winning a game. That's not happening.

[00:01:47]And so, I you know, the Knicks they could win game five or seven in San Antonio. It's not impossible. They they won the two games there already. Brunson makes big shots fourth quarter.

[00:01:58]You can win a road game in a seventh game. We just saw San Antonio win in Oklahoma City. If the Spurs lose lose, the series is over.

[00:02:05]If the Knicks lose, it isn't. So, because of that, Steve, I think it's a bigger game for San Antonio.

[00:02:10]>> you on that. I just think that my fandom is going to disagree with you.

[00:02:16]And the reason why my fandom is going to disagree with you is that if the Spurs lose tonight, but they win game five back in San Antonio, then everything is about Tuesday night because you got the San Antonio Spurs needing to win one game to force a game seven back on their home turf. You see what I'm saying? I look at the New York Knicks. If you win game one and two on their home on their home turf, you go on the road and then they snatch that momentum away from you in games three and four.

[00:02:53]I think that's a devastating blow to a less talented, but more experienced New York team. Their experience was what we relied upon. We looked at the San Antonio Spurs and said their youth would get the better of them. To go on the road in Madison Square Garden with all the pomp and circumstance surrounding these two games and to snatch both games to reclaim home court advantage in an NBA final series with a bunch of 22-year-olds, I think that is devastating for the New York Knicks to overcome. I'm not saying that you're wrong that if San Antonio falls 3-1, that they could come back and win the series. I'm saying equally as important, I think if the New York Knicks lose tonight, they're in a world of trouble because all the momentum returns to San Antonio.

[00:03:46]>> You miss me, don't you?

[00:03:47]>> I love you. I haven't seen you in a long time.

[00:03:48]>> I know, I know you miss me because when you come on, you want to get your feet out, I understand, but you're wrong. Mad dog, like the pressure is all the way on the Knicks for the rest of the series.

[00:04:00]It's on the New York Knicks to close it out. And and and my thing is my thing is when you when you look at what's at stake, you can't go on the road, you can't win close games, and and take home court advantage, and come back to the quote-unquote Mecca, and not get one?

[00:04:18]Not get one? It can't happen. It can't happen. Right now, I could one could argue, well, I'll say it, the San Antonio Spurs, they're playing with house money.

[00:04:27]All the way up to the end. They're playing with house money. The Knicks, [music] you're a betting man.

[00:04:32]>> I agree with you >> You're talking with Fat Rob.

[00:04:34]>> Uh we did not bet this series.

[00:04:36]>> Okay, well, I'm pretty sure Fat Rob got the Knicks favored to win this series.

[00:04:40]>> He would have bet the Knicks. He's a Knicks fan.

[00:04:41]>> Okay, okay, but they're favored to win this series.

[00:04:44]>> Right now, they're favored. They're up two to one. They're >> I know they are.

[00:04:46]>> They're going to continue to be favored.

[00:04:48]>> I I That's a different point though that you're making. It's in a great point.

[00:04:51]Knicks have to win this series. San Antonio's a young team. I agree with you on that. But tonight tonight specifically, if the Spurs lose, can they win a series?

[00:05:01]>> No.

[00:05:02]>> Okay. If the Knicks lose, could they possibly win a game five or a game seven on the road?

[00:05:07]>> Yeah, but why would you want to take it that way though, Mad Dog? My thing is it's not like they've been winning in great fashion.

[00:05:13]>> No, I agree with you.

[00:05:14]>> Like these games have been close. Like these games have been coming down to possession by possession games. Wimby throwing the dumb ass pass off of Castle back. Like those are the things that's been happening. So, it's not like the Knicks been smoking these guys the Spurs that at home on their home floor. My thing is is that right now the Spurs are starting to develop a certain level of confidence. If you're the Knicks, >> You got to squash it.

[00:05:39]>> you got to squash it. Tonight. Tonight.

[00:05:42]>> the premise.

[00:05:43]>> I I understand the premise.

[00:05:43]>> As we pointed out earlier, a home team has yet to win a game in this series.

[00:05:47]Only one other team, so two teams it has been this way, have lost the first three games at home. If it goes to four, that has never been done before, so uncharted territory.

[00:05:57]>> Who you guys taking? Deciding factor.

[00:05:58]I'mma go first. I initially picked uh Spurs in six, so I'm going to roll with my picks. I got to take Spurs tonight.

[00:06:04]I'm going to go Spurs tonight. I'm sorry Knicks fans. Uh got to stick with my initial pick, go with my gut.

[00:06:09]>> Well, I feel sorry for your loss.

[00:06:11]>> Okay, thanks.

[00:06:11]>> Uh the Knicks are going to win this game tonight. Brunson is going to be outstanding. Mike Brown is going to make the adjustments he needs to make and Karl-Anthony Towns will be featured in the offense.

[00:06:22]>> Okay.

[00:06:23]>> Uh I'll say this. Thank god the Spurs from our perspective they gave us a week something to talk about. We have games, you got a little drama, you got this. If the Knicks had won on Monday, we'd be Knicks'd out. I would be listening to him five Oh my god, enough Steve, I get it.

[00:06:37]>> [laughter] >> So thank god the Spurs won the other day. But I'm with you, I'm with Kendrick. I think the Knicks will eke out a close game tonight and go up 3-1.

[00:06:47]>> The Knicks have to win this game.

[00:06:49]They don't win this game, the series gets very, very scary.

[00:06:56]They have to win this game.

[00:06:58]Knicks survive tonight at the Garden.

[00:07:00]>> Oh, sleep across the board.

[00:07:02]>> They already nervous. All the Knicks fans around town right now are nervous.

[00:07:06]I'm not hearing no orange and blue skies. When I arrived here on What was that? On Monday, I got off the plane, all I kept hearing is party Big Body Brunson, Big Body Brunson. Go out around the town, everybody It's so quiet you could hear a mouse fart. That's how quiet it is around the city.

[00:07:23]>> I am not seeing it nearly as much Knicks gear too here in New York. Everyone's got a little nervous energy.

[00:07:29]>> Monday was the set You see how he acting? Raise your head up. You.

[00:07:32]You nervous? He know it.

[00:07:34]>> Monday he celebrated with the president, today he gets nervous [laughter] about a basketball game. Congratulations.

[00:07:39]>> Wasn't celebrate with the president.

[00:07:40]>> Oh boy.

[00:07:41]>> You know what I'm saying?