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Nothing wrong with the pussy. Nothing wrong with the pussy. Nothing wrong with the pussy. Hey, hey, hey everybody. Hola. Once again from Mexico City. I'm still here, still rocking. Obviously got the same set as last time if you're watching on YouTube. Sorry that this episode is getting delivered late. I watched the game, I figured I'd record after the game because it's obviously the thing I caring most about at the moment. Was hoping for better results, obviously. But I guess today I'll focus this episode mostly on the series thus far and a little bit of my travels throughout Mexico City because it has been a lot of fun, even though it feels like my entire trip has slowly becoming revolving around the Knicks run here in the finals. Once again, I'm recording on my laptop. I do not have my equipment. So any like information or stats and stuff that I need will be on my phone. I promise. I'm not texting. Unlike a lot of other podcasters that live on their phone during recordings, this is just me using this as a reference point. Okay, the finals thus far. Well, I'll talk about it through the lens of Mexico City Game one. I went to this bar. It was a pretty low key bar. So low key that they weren't properly like they didn't have real inventory, but it had like the best sports vibe that I've seen yet in terms of like a local sports vibe. What I mean by no inventory is I went there alone, met a few people from New York. The crowd was about split. It was about half San Antonio people, half New York, not people from San Antonio, but people that root for San Antonio because again, proximity wise, Texas being the closest, far closer to here than New York is. Even though New York's obviously a far more global city, but they have more connectivity to San Antonio. Met some awesome people from New York, met some people that have used to live in New York that now permanently live here. Just a real cool spot. Obviously Knicks win vibes are high. This spot though, as we're, as the game is going on and they have gamestowned on, but the spot is running out of beers. I, you know, get a Modelo and they ask for another one like we're all out. I'm like, how are you? How is that even possible? Go on and on and on, whatever. Great night. Exchange information with some people. See you back at game two. Right. So couple days pass again because this is born playing in San Antonio so there's less time in between games. Game two comes around. This was on what was this Friday in mind you the games here started 6:30, which is nice because you can still go out and enjoy the day as well. Game two comes around. Now we have a larger contingency, a lot of Knicks fans, far more Knicks fans than San Antonio fans of game two. This is where I meet a lot more people, people that I've actually been hanging out with here, was with them last night for game three. Knicks played great. We got to our spots. Carl Anthony Town was heavily involved, which I think he is the game. He's the decision, like the factor of this series. I think we win this series based on Cat's play, which I think is evident from his performance in Game 3. How lackluster his role was throughout that moment. Most recent game, but I don't want to break down too much of the games that we won. Point, needless to say, like, we got the ball to our spots. We, you know, there were bleed swings, which is expected, but when we needed to punch back, we punched back harder. And Captain Clutch got it done in those clutch moments in the final two. First two games. Right. No surprise there. If you're a Knicks fan, you know, this is something that's been happening for the last few years and it's cool to see it on the biggest stage of the game. Right? So now vibes are high. We're up 20 and now let's talk about what happened last night. So last night we're. We're in the Garden. It's a different feeling. Obviously this is the highest stakes of a game in the Garden in, you know, almost nearly 30 years and 27 years since the last time we were in the finals, which was really, we didn't have a shot. That team was depleted, Ewing was hurt. We just dog walk for the Spurs. It wasn't really a fair shot. Our last real shot was in 94. But whatever, lost that as well. The city shut down. And again, I'm following all this relatively from afar. I'm seeing videos on Twitter, videos from my friends that are either trying to get to the game or just in the neighborhood. And it seems tense, like the air is tense. It's joyous because of that. We're up. But there's also await shutting down three avenues blocking off, you know, businesses and people from. If you're coming in and out of Penn Station, I believe that they said then you were able to get access inside, but if not there, then you weren't like bars. Imagine being a sports bar, which there are a ton in that radius that probably weren't that were not able to Have a crowd for the game or keep their business open for this game. The obviously I'm dancing around it, but it's all because of Trump's ass that came into the game and they gave the motorcade, they wheeled him through and you know, as expected in New York fashion, he got booed. He got booed at the Garden, obviously got booted at the Ryan park watch party. He got booed at the bar here in Mexico City. I went to a different bar this time that had much better TV situation. It was like a pool hall kind of vibe. And I went with some of the guys that I met at game two and people that I met at a hostel as well. So we had a nice little crew, but there was a lot of people mixed. Nick San Antonio, it's a much bigger spot than the place I went to for games one and two. The whole place booed for Trump, which is pretty awesome. But fuck the politics of basketball. I had a tweet that did pretty well. I can insert it here if I remember to in post, but Tom Morello retweeted it, which is fucking sick. Tom Morello is, if you're not familiar, the guitarist for Rage against the Machine and Audioslave. And he's worked with, I mean, those two groups I love, but he's also worked with a bunch of amazing artists. He's one of the best guitarists of all time, which is really cool. Huge political activist and any chance I get to combine sports with politics on a good tweet, I'll take my shot. So anyway, the breakdowns of game three and where we went wrong. I don't think Jalen's going to play a great series. I don't think we can ask for Jalen to play a great series. They're loading up on him. Pause the way in which that the spurs loaded up on sga, forcing him to. He's not going to not shoot. I mean, he was 11 for 25 tonight, his best shooting night of the series thus far. But he's going to have to play the volume game. But what Jalen was able to do in game one and two more so was spread the floor, meaning not dribble the ball and call ISO at the top of the key and turn your back to the hoop and slow dribble until the clock hits 10 and then try to get, you know, downhill and create something a better way to space the floor. Especially when the spurs have someone like Wemby. The freak of that Wemby is is you need to stretch him. Pause to either there's going to be a lot of pauses. You need to force him to either the left or the right side of the court. You can't just have him be able to park there in the middle because that serves their defensive scheme when he doesn't have to really make a decision, because he can just play by way of his length either side of the court, you know, in distribute towards Brunson and also just keep him coming down, up, you know, uphill, downhill, north, south. Whereas if he's a little more to the left, a little more to the right, Wemby's going to have to take that step as a help defender. Which then opens up that backside. That either immediate swing pass to that far corner or the 1, 2 top. The key to then far corner for that. Like what has been traditionally the series that Landry or OG Sham at three. Landry or OG Sham at that. Landry or OG three pointer. So that's offensive scheme wise. I guess we'll just start with that since I'm already teeing that up with Brunson. We win or lose this series if Kat is involved. It was clear that Katie Cat in games one and two was aggressive. He's using his size and his strength and all that zesty daddy cat shit that people were getting off. You couldn't say that about him in games one and two because of how aggressive he was. He was backpacking people dunking on him out, rebounding them, banging down low. In this game, he was giving what the spurs gave him, which wasn't enough at all. It was a lot of elbow jockeying and physical contact at the top of the key. And I could go on and on about the refereeing this series. I think it's been awful. Clearly in favor of the spurs this entire time, but in particular in Game 3, yes, the spurs had a favorable whistle. They outshot us. They had 24 free throws in the second half to our eight, which is insane. But how the spurs did that was by being aggressive and by forcing our guys to, you know, hand check, create hard fouls. What was it we had in the fourth quarter? We had three fouls in the first, like, minute and a half, right? So they're approaching bonus early in the corner. I think they went into the bonus with like nine minutes left in the fourth. And that helped Wemby immensely because we know Wemby's stamina has been. The thing that's really, to this point of his career, has been his kryptonite, is his. His conditioning. So with shooting, that Many free throws with stopping the clock that many times. There were a lot of plays that were under review. There were a lot of weird dead, dead ball moments throughout this, this game. It gave Wemby those like, micro breaks and rest that he needed to catch his breath to get into a rhythm. And half of Wemby's free throw routine, if you're not, you know, if you really don't pay attention to these guys on the level that I do, it's a breathing technique. All he's doing is using that moment to catch his breath. Breath. He closes his eyes, goes into like his little zen zone, and, you know, it gives him that beat that he needs to then extend his playing time, effective playing time throughout the quarter. While on the topic of Wemby, he started aggressive. The. The mistakes that Wemby made in games one and two, he didn't make in game three, games one and two, he opened the games by shooting, which you should not be chucking up threes or popping from outside in this game. In game three, I believe Wemby had like three dunks in the first, like two, three minutes. He opened the game with a dunk like he. He went, he attacked the rim. He was aggressive. He made us hit him. He made us foul him. Unlike Calor, Anthony Towns, Wemby got to his spots and made us have to stop him, which more often than not, we can't. I believe in the first two games, Wemby had like one lob dunk. In this game alone, they had four successful ones, which comes from a really poor defensive scheme from our end. Yeah, I feel like I'm kind of ripping down this list here, but let's go. Let's go into some, some coaching blunders that we made. I'm saying all this as if we got blown out. This is a game that we still let slip and should have won. I think Mike Brown's real bad coaching decision for letting that rotation in the third go on for a little too long. Of Landry Shamut, Jose Alvarado and Jordan Clarkson. I understand that Brunson at That point had four fouls, but when it was 92, 93, we should have subbed them out and kept the Brunsons and Cap back in the game because we had these three guys running around. Mikel Bridges, who was a non factor the entire game, I think. I believe Mikel's first bucket was the last basket of the third quarter, which in my mind, I remember saying at the time, great, he saw one go in. He'll heat up in the fourth and we'll get you know, a ten pointer from him in the fourth because that's what we need right now. We need somebody to just come up, come up besides OG and contribute from that like 2, 3, 4 guard position. Obviously that did not happen. Miguel was a non factor this game which was really upsetting considering his performance. Performance the last game. Let's see what else do I have on here that I can remember off top spurs dude got the bonus early. Wemby and Castle's performance Castle had has been iffy, honestly. Like he's still a bit of a turnover machine but him and Wemby combined 19 for 32. Castle was kind of dog walking Brunson in, in the paint. He does like that like slow step lay and it's highly effective. He's obviously the size over Brunson so he can attack north south on him. He doesn't have to really worry about going around him. You can draw the foul if you want or just go right over his head and get the easy layup. Dylan Harper, I can't say enough about this kid. He's their rookie. He led the team in rebounds. I think he's an incredible player. I think that he should be getting more minutes from de' Aaron Fox. Understandably. Yes, de' Aaron Fox did hit like the big clutch game winner shot, whatever. But Dylan Harper has been far more effective. And I'm not like a deer and Fox hater. I think like whatever happened with his ankles severely, that high ankle sprain that he had has severely altered how aggressive he can play and how well he plays. And Dylan Harper is peaking like he's really hitting his stride at the right time and doing everything you could ask for for somebody off the bench speaking, I mean of supporting cast like we, you know, did not get a lift at all. I already talked about Bridges but also from Landry Shammit. I can't say enough about OG Anunoby. Positively he's. He, he's the only person. Yes, I'll get to that. Jose shot over Wemby in a second but OG is just not afraid at all of Wemby and just he does that, that pinnacle like that classic two hand dunk off either one foot or mostly he likes to do it off two feet where he hangs on the rim and sways. That is so deflating to someone like Wemby who's looked at as like untouchable in any way. And time and time again OG attacks him and OG will either get to the line or just throw Finish on, on him, pause like, get the dunk, make the play. But hitting clutch threes, making his free throws. I, I honestly, MVP of the game for the Knicks tonight was OG I don't even think it's close, to be honest. Let's see. Wemby, I said because of the, the calls and the ticky tacks and he was able to play the entire fourth quarter, which was huge for him. Cat being a no show. I really hated how they let the spurs small guards were able to dictate how Cat could play again. I think this is the second time I've already said this. I don't think we win the series if Cat doesn't step up. I think he's the X factor here. Yeah, Jalen, I mean, they attacked Jalen on defense. They called ISO. I said it's the first using his size. Stefan Castle using his size on Jalen to get to the rim. Darren Fox also attacked him as well. But I mean, look at the end of the day, we had clean looks at the hoop. We couldn't get them to fall. We had an opportunity to win. We did have an open 3. I forget who had the chance to shoot, who missed it, but we missed it. And I think it's the assumption from here moving forward is we're not going to get the whistle. So you have to dictate the game in ways in which you can, which if you want the game to be called as evenly as possible, you have to attack. I don't like, I hate the, the, the one thing that Brunson does that annoys me is like that, that like head, like you beat the defender and you throw your body back and chuck the ball and hopefully it goes in, but you're really trying to absorb the foul and get to the line. I think the primary focus has to shift from trying to draw contact and get the foul to just make the basket because you're not going to get a clean look otherwise. If you beat that defender, if you have him on your back hip like Brunson so often does, go lean forward, hit the baby bunny, hit the jumper. Don't try to lean back, initiate contact because now you're affecting the outcome of the shot and you're in your. Now you're also putting the outcome of the possession in the hands of the ref. Make the basket, get back on defense, play the game the way it's supposed to be played. The one guard that I love that can snake around and attack. I think Jose Alvarado has become great and has gotten you Know, he's done. I think he only had four points, but his impact is felt. He's. He's a hell of a defender. He's a nuisance all over the court. He's honestly like a smaller Josh Hart in that regard. And he had this great. That great, you know, turnaround cross through Wemby, like that lean in that gave Wemby that, like, need to take a step or two back to. Then hit that fade over Wemby, where Wendy's hand literally just missed the ball by like an inch or two, which is crazy, because Wemby was jumping off his back foot and extending and leaning forward while all his momentum was taking him away from the ball. It's pretty crazy stuff. A couple other Wemby defensive plays that were insane. That Landry Shamet blew by Wemby on the corner and tried to do a traditional lay, which at this point, you've got to know. This is a tip that actually Shamit should have taken from Jose Alvarez, because I believe in either game one or game two, Jose Alvarez did the same thing, beat Wemby on a. On a. On a jab, went around him and knew because Wemby's recovery is insane, you can have two, three steps on Wemby, he'll still clean block it. Jose Alvarez went directly. If this is the rim, Jose Alvarez snuck the ball in a reverse layup and tucked it right under the rim, meaning when you pinned it, causing a goaltend, knowing he wasn't going to make the layup. But what you have to do is you have to positionally dig the ball under where the backboard meets the underside of the rim and cause Wemby to. To hammer it there. Because if you lay it up on a silver platter, if you give him a goddamn golden goose the way in which Shamet did, I mean, I could have blocked that. Like, he left too much time, and 1B just sent that off the backboard. And obviously, plays like that are. You know, it's first, it's losing a bucket, but also, like, it ricochets off the backboard and causes a fast break, transition bucket the other way swings. All of the momentum, takes us out of the game. It was. It was rough. Honestly, this game could have been a lot worse. If Josh Hart, what did he had, like, four threes. I think he started the game like three for four from three or four for four. But then, you know, that, well, runs dry pretty quickly. I love Josh, but I don't if he's ours, if he's our Swing man for threes. It's going to end quick and it's just not what we want. But yeah, I think everything lives and dies by Kat becoming that Jokic of our team. And if we can spread our offense and have Kat run that high screen, that either, you know, they never play off him. So he usually draws the double. That point guard hit can roll towards the hoop. And then we also have either the same side three for the corner or that skip past the opposite corner three, where we get. If you dump it to the guard, they can kick out to the three on the opposite side. Which in this series, which in the entire playoffs has usually been shamet or bridges. But we, I don't know, we stepped away from our game. I don't know if this was like, you know, if we're back in the Garden, let's just play hero ball. But we were, you know, our flow was bad. I saw Mike Brown's presser and he really wanted. He leaned heavy on the refs. And look, yes, the refereeing could have been better. I was adamant quite a few times about the refereeing. De' Aaron Fox traveled again. He traveled twice. One caused a bucket in game two. In game three, he didn't end up scoring, but it was ridiculous. He rolled on the floor like a breakdancer and got up and there was no whistle. The Wemby just palming Jalen Brunson's back of his head and shoving him on the ground and laughing at him is just beyond. That's like just disrespectful as a person. An under noted story that has not been developed enough or even flirted with because of his public image being Mr. Zen and Mr. Yogi. Wemby has, I think it's safe to say he has like clear anger issues and he can be abrasive. And I know it's like a basketball, you get it's aggression and you have to channel that aggression towards the game. But there are moments with Wemby in particular where his outbursts are outside. They happen on the court, yes, obviously, but those outbursts are outside of the game itself. Like these aren't traditional plays that are made in a bass. The elbow to the face that he did, the palming of Jalen's head and throwing it down. He's done like some ticky, tacky, cheap shit that's just not within the bounds of basketball. But again, the most amazing PR team of all time, they'll say he dribbled a ball of a mountain. So clearly he doesn't have anger issues and I sound like I'm hating but I genuinely love this first team and I'm a big fan of Wemby. I think he's incredible. So, you know, just hoping for a clean good rest of series. The way I see it, we have to win. I think game four is a must win for us. It pains me to say. I think if we lose game four we lose the series because now we're really playing a 00 and now we're back in. Say we go back to San Antonio Tide, they're going to win that next home game is 3:2. They've already taken two of the guard and they come back here for game six. But if we do win, say we win three three. But now we got to go back San Antonio which we've won twice in already. But I don't know at that point, I don't know, I just. It's at that point I think it's out of our hands because of the way this has been refereed. But yeah, anyway, I'm a super excited. I can talk hoop all day. I've been talking hoop since I've been here. I love this game so much and I care about this city and the Knicks so much and I'm really happy to see the city this excited. I'm seeing like videos of like the antics of some fights breaking out and all that. But like that's not. Those aren't the real Knicks fans. That's all like clout chasey kickstreaming bullshit that these people are purposefully trying to antagonize. I saw this one white, white boy loser. Who the knows where these people even live? Probably just some, probably their parents house in the suburbs of Florida outside of Miami. But this they, you know, they, they wear spurs jerseys, puff their chest, talk a bunch of. And they'd be like well we don't want trouble. Like it's just, it's all, it's. It's just rage baiting and in real life but unfortunately there's a camera and when emotions are high and there's alcohol flowing, people will react even at the game, even at the watch here There was a 2 guy I met this couple people from the Bronx that were there that were watching. They were Sweeze Girl a couple guys and then there were these two random guys sitting at the table and this one guy was like these two little fucking artsy looking honestly look like twinks. But this dude was like at the table and he. And I'm not saying that in derogatory Way. I'm just saying like in a bad way. Like the like little frail mustache, they're all bony as. And the game ends. And this one dude turns to me and goes, who won that one? I said, why? What the are you. Why are you talking to me? Get out of here. Like, what are you doing? You don't like. And also you just. This isn't for you. You don't do this like, this isn't your domain. Shut the fuck up. Yeah, that pissed me off that I just went home afterwards, went to bed. Not because of that, because the game itself, it's just like little dumb. I don't know, like who put this like dickhead like energy in the backs of of people? I mean, I think it starts with like the political climate. Everybody's like looking for like an angle to just be an or just be negative. But whatever. GGs outside of hoop Mexico City has been incredible. I've eaten. The food here has been amazing to no surprise. Obviously the main difference between my recent travels in Spain and Mexico is the spice level. Spanish people in Spain do not. There is no sauce, there's no spice. It's a lot of clean seafood, fresh food, which it's honestly probably in terms of like health and like feeling good. That's what I prefer. But here you can't beat the flavor, the. The amount of sauce that they. That is served with your dishes. I had a burrito at this spot last night. My first burrito since being here was incredible. And this is just a burrito from like a sports bar. Museums. I saw a lot of museums. I've seen a lot of great art. Damn, I'm blanking on this one dude's name brand. But let me look it up. But I went to Sunday. I went to three different museums, which was awesome. I saw they had some like. What's the name of the museum? The one in particular that I really enjoyed. It's a cool looking building as well. Let me see. I can find this actually just on the map. I know my city, but they had the Tsuyama Museum. If you're not familiar, look it up. It's this really interesting looking building. It kind of shape wise it's like a Guggenheim but with a filled floor. Like it's just a swirl you walk around. But the art doesn't live on the walls on that swirl. It lives on the floor that you get off on and then you continue up and up and up. It's pretty cool. It's like five floors. But in that museum they had a lot of really cool art. They had a bunch of Salvador Dali's, which is sick. It's pretty cool to see a lot of his pieces that I saw at his museum in Paris and then coming here and seeing more of them. And it was cool to just like, immediately be able to recognize which was his beyond, like the surrealist impression stuff, but more like the sculpture stuff as well, that they also had in this museum, which is pretty cool. I did see a bunch of. What's his name here it is. David Alvaro Siqueiros. I'm sorry if I'm butchering that. But he was a political, active artist who revolutionized murals through dynamic perspectives, Individual industrial materials in bold textures. He was around during the Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera years a little bit. They had some overlap. He was. Passed away in 74. Super fucking cool, dude. I fell in love with his work so much that I looked up where to find more of his work in Mexico City. And there's two other museums, one in particular that seems to just be focused on his stuff because the scale of a lot of his pieces are huge. They were murals that were political murals that, like, were covering city walls, you know, so these are really big statement pieces. They're beautiful in color. I'll try to put some on here, but super fucking cool. I love anything to that. To that scale that has such a powerful message. Yeah. Who else did I. Oh, I saw two Van Goghs that I'd never seen before. They were like, two. There's like, a guy herding sheep, and then one about a man on his farm or something like that. But they weren't the strokes. Paws were. It just wasn't like your traditional Van Gogh. When I. When I saw them from afar, I was like, why does this style look kind of familiar? But I can't pinpoint, like, which. Which artist it was. And when I went up and I saw those Van Gogh, I was like, oh, these are, like, two very different versions of what a traditional Van Gogh looks like. Even from the color palette. These are more. These were more muted, less playing with, like, the famous blues that Van Gogh often puts into his pieces. It was cool. It's just really cool to walk into a museum and just be exposed to art that you know for our new art from an artist that you've already previously loved. I went to the famous library here. Bibliotheca Vascon Vasconcelos. It looks like something from. What? Damn. What's that Christopher Nolan film? Like Tenant? Like it? It's. It's ridiculous. It's just. Look it up. It's got, it's like eight floors with just, it's like a symmetry, symmetrical dream. Just aisles and aisles jutting out into the open lobby. Beneath this like suspended skeletal dinosaur thing in the middle. There's gardens all around on the outside that appears beautiful that I walked through the vegetation here. Mexico City is such a green city. The main park here, let me get the name of it, but the main park I learned here is like three times the size that of Central park, which is insane. Which I really didn't believe. And. But then you just kind of see it at scale of what it is like to like to bike like from one end of the park to the other is like 45 minutes to an hour. It's just, it's, it's lush, it's green, it's, it's, it's. Yeah, this nature's is just colorful. It's, it's nice. I mean it just feels nice to walk around in. And this is like a legit forest. Like you can get lost in some of these places in the heart of the city, which is pretty cool. I've been biking a lot. I've been averaging like, you know, anywhere from like 15 to 20,000 steps a day. I've been biking a shit ton, which has been honestly was often one of my most fun ways to see the city because a couple of the museums that I stopped and I weren't even aware, I wasn't even aware of and you know, I'm riding a bike or walking and I'll see this beautiful historic building. Oh, it's amusing. I'll just dock the bike, go in on Sunday. All the museums were free, but even if not on Sunday, I've been going there for like $5 to get in here. It's incredible. I saw a lot of newer Frida Kahlo's work. Not newer, but stuff that I hadn't seen before. I saw a new Gucci which is freaking awesome. I went to the new Gucci Museum back home in Long Island City a few weeks ago. So to, to come here and see another piece of his is pretty cool. But yeah, busy week I had. We have the, the Knicks game tomorrow and then I have my boy Falcons and the Pangea crew are coming down here to do a show on on Friday, which is going to be incredible. I have another concert to go to on Thursday, which I'm very excited about. The World cup opening is happening Thursday. I believe it's Thursday. But yeah, Mexico's the first game Against South Africa. They're actually playing here. Gonna go to some a big ass watch party probably at that park, which is going to be sick. But it's been a good time. I've not gotten sick. I've avoided the water. Knock on wood. Doing really well with that. I got a haircut. I mean, I've been wearing a hat, but yeah, I did a big chop got my curls are still there. But a haircut was like half the amount of money it cost back home, so I had to get it done here. Yeah, I mean, look, this has been a fantastic trip. I have a good friend of mine coming in tomorrow that's going to be with me through, through this coming weekend. But I've met some great people. I'm really having a good time and just absorbing other cultures is such a luxury that will never be lost on me. And it's really. I wish we could get to a point back home where Americans had a mandated travel, especially to a city like Mexico that is our bordering neighbor where it seems like for years we've, the government has built up this terrible reputation and throwing mud at the people of Mexico when in fact if you come here and experience the culture and experience the people, it's a beautiful, it's stunning, it's lovely people, it's a lovely place and I've really had a great time and it's something I would recommend to everybody listening here and also to anybody that I run into back home as well. Well, so yeah, we'll keep it at that. I'm gonna go check out some Mayan ruins today. There are a lot of ruins outside of the city, but I really don't want to take a car like two hours or an hour and a half outside of the city on these like windy roads. But there is a, there is a preserved park here that has ancient Mayan ruins that is untouched. So. So I'm gonna go check that out. There's a spot that Anthony Bourdain loved to go to for breakfast that I missed today. But I'll probably check that out tomorrow morning, which I'm super excited about it. It was his favorite spot to go to Mexico City. It's only like a 15 minute bike ride from where I am, which is super exciting. So yeah, just absorbing this day by day and mixing in a little bit of my love for, for the Knicks in between, but yeah. All right, guys, I didn't say this is episode 62 or 63 of Something Wrong with the Podcast. Live from Mexico. Appreciate y'. All. Peace.
Host: Julian Delgado
Date: June 9, 2026
Julian Delgado hosts from Mexico City, combining a heartfelt breakdown of the New York Knicks’ Game 3 loss in the NBA Finals with a comedic and reflective travelogue of his experiences in Mexico. The episode interweaves passionate sports analysis, sharp cultural observations, and the host’s signature therapy-style commentary.
[00:35 - 08:40]
[08:41 – 41:00]
Got booed at the Garden, at Mexico City bars, and at public watch parties.
“He got booed at the Garden, obviously got booed at the Bryant Park watch party. He got booed at the bar here in Mexico City.” (11:10)
Julian’s viral tweet about Trump got retweeted by Tom Morello.
“Tom Morello retweeted it, which is fucking sick.” (12:00)
Jalen Brunson’s limitations:
Key Player: Karl-Anthony Towns (KAT):
KAT’s involvement is critical to the Knicks’ chances; when aggressive, Knicks thrive; the Game 3 absence hurt them.
“We win or lose this series if Cat is involved.” (15:45)
Refereeing & Spurs Advantage:
“There were a lot of plays that were under review, a lot of weird dead-ball moments…it gave Wemby those micro-breaks.” (21:15)
Victor Wembanyama (Wemby) Adjustment:
Wemby played aggressively from the start, attacked the rim, and forced the Knicks into fouling situations.
“In game three, I believe Wemby had like three dunks in the first like two or three minutes. He went, he attacked the rim. He was aggressive.” (22:25)
Defensive Woes and Coaching Issues:
Criticism of Knicks coach Mike Brown’s third-quarter rotations kept weak lineups on the floor too long after Brunson got in foul trouble.
“Mike Brown’s real bad coaching decision, letting that rotation in the third go on for a little too long.” (26:50)
Mikal Bridges and Landry Shamet were non-factors; OG Anunoby praised as the sole Knick “not afraid of Wemby.”
“OG is just not afraid at all of Wemby…MVP of the game for the Knicks tonight was OG. I don't even think it's close.” (31:08)
Knicks had open looks late, couldn’t convert.
Reiterated that KAT is the X-factor; without his aggressiveness Knicks are limited (33:45).
Critiques on reliance for foul-baiting over clean shot-making:
“The primary focus has to shift from trying to draw contact and get the foul, to just make the basket…don't try to lean back and initiate contact.” (35:05)
Praise for Jose Alvarado as a "smaller Josh Hart" for his hustle and defensive play (36:15); clever breakdown of Wemby’s shot-blocking and how other guards have successfully circumvented him (37:50).
Final assessment:
Knicks must adjust and win Game 4, or the series is likely lost; lament about poor officiating and ref bias, but admits some mistakes were on the Knicks.
“We have to win. I think game four is a must-win for us. It pains me to say, I think if we lose game four, we lose the series.” (43:15)
[41:01 – 50:00]
Describes the “clout chasey, kickstreaming bullshit” among fake fans and instigators at games and bars.
“Those aren’t the real Knicks fans…just rage-baiting in real life but unfortunately there’s a camera…” (43:55)
Anecdotes about randoms trying to taunt him after the loss, critiquing “dickhead energy,” linking it to the political climate.
“Who put this dickhead energy in the backs of people? I mean, I think it starts with the political climate…” (45:30)
[50:01 – End]
On basketball philosophy:
“Everything lives and dies by KAT becoming that Jokic of our team.” (38:35)
On Wemby's mentality:
“Wemby…has clear anger issues and he can be abrasive… these outbursts are outside of the game itself…But again, the most amazing PR team of all time, they’ll say he dribbled a ball up a mountain, so he clearly doesn’t have anger issues.” (40:00)
On culture & travel:
“Absorbing other cultures is such a luxury that will never be lost on me… I wish we could get to a point back home where Americans had a mandated travel, especially to a city like Mexico that is our bordering neighbor…” (56:00)
Julian maintains an informal, witty, and passionate tone throughout. He blends nuanced basketball analysis with cultural commentary and self-deprecating humor about his own travels and the social energy around him.