A Quick Timeout with Coach Tony Miller
Jun 12, 2026 · 50 min · 16 segments
BBallBreakdown's Coach Nick is back to break down the Knicks 29-point comeback in Game 4 of the NBA Finals. Another fun episode for coaches and fans alike! Check out…
Coach NickGuest
Tony MillerHost
They were down by 29 and then just very slowly, very methodically, they cut the 25 and then it was like the 20 and then they got like 15, but it was over a huge amount of time in a way that it just seemed, it was just riveting to watch and figure out like, can they do this? Can the, can the Knicks keep it together long enough? And will the Spurs melt? Like we've already seen them in game two and I'm sad to say for Spurs fans, I think that that was what happened.
Especially here in the summertime, I have a little extra time, and so I'm listening to my favorite sports talk radio shows, and it's always interesting to hear their diagnosis of what happened.
And sometimes I feel as a coach, not that I know better, but just viewing it from the standpoint of a coach, sometimes I feel like they hit it.
Sometimes it feels like they hit it, kind of, but if they understood the game a little bit better, they may be able to identify...
From your point of view, what do you feel like for the Spurs went wrong in the second half?
What went really well for them in the first half, which allowed them to build the lead, was how
And at halftime, I had actually posted on X. I said, okay, scintillating performance.
So the question was, would they be able to continue doing that? And the answer is probably not.
Now, that said, if you look at how they are generated, almost all of them were assisted threes.
They were like beautiful middle penetration or like a lot of no, no triple threat, just like split and catch on the split on attack and get in the middle kick spray.
I don't really know what they do beyond that double ball screen that we talked about last episode.
But they do play in space and they do get advantages very easily and the ball gets moving.
But against a good team like the Knicks, who are a good defensive team and they are very physical, eventually that you if you that might be a thing that will go away right you're gonna just get you're gonna bump you more you'll have less room suddenly you're not as open getting in the middle slightly less rotations opening up um and so naturally yes they went uh you know two for 14 or something in the second half and a lot of that was regression to the mean because some of those shots were open they just didn't go in that's how it happens here So I think that was a big part of it was that they went they were not hot in the second half.
But then, you know, there were some, you know, specific plays and decisions that got made down the stretch that make you wonder, like, you know, they should know better how to prosecute these things.
And whether or not it's the coach or not is a good debate we're going to have to have on whether or not he should be the one who is educating them.
They were down by 29 and then just very slowly, very methodically, they cut the 25 and then it was like the 20 and then they got like 15, but it was over a huge amount of time in a way that it just seemed, it was just riveting to watch and figure out like, can they do this? Can the, can the Knicks keep it together long enough? And will the Spurs melt? Like we've already seen them in game two and I'm sad to say for Spurs fans, I think that that was what happened.
Especially here in the summertime, I have a little extra time, and so I'm listening to my favorite sports talk radio shows, and it's always interesting to hear their diagnosis of what happened.
And sometimes I feel as a coach, not that I know better, but just viewing it from the standpoint of a coach, sometimes I feel like they hit it.
Sometimes it feels like they hit it, kind of, but if they understood the game a little bit better, they may be able to identify...
From your point of view, what do you feel like for the Spurs went wrong in the second half?
What went really well for them in the first half, which allowed them to build the lead, was how
And at halftime, I had actually posted on X. I said, okay, scintillating performance.
So the question was, would they be able to continue doing that? And the answer is probably not.
Now, that said, if you look at how they are generated, almost all of them were assisted threes.
They were like beautiful middle penetration or like a lot of no, no triple threat, just like split and catch on the split on attack and get in the middle kick spray.
I don't really know what they do beyond that double ball screen that we talked about last episode.
But they do play in space and they do get advantages very easily and the ball gets moving.
But against a good team like the Knicks, who are a good defensive team and they are very physical, eventually that you if you that might be a thing that will go away right you're gonna just get you're gonna bump you more you'll have less room suddenly you're not as open getting in the middle slightly less rotations opening up um and so naturally yes they went uh you know two for 14 or something in the second half and a lot of that was regression to the mean because some of those shots were open they just didn't go in that's how it happens here So I think that was a big part of it was that they went they were not hot in the second half.
But then, you know, there were some, you know, specific plays and decisions that got made down the stretch that make you wonder, like, you know, they should know better how to prosecute these things.
And whether or not it's the coach or not is a good debate we're going to have to have on whether or not he should be the one who is educating them.
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