Mitch Johnson: Spurs can be 'much sharper' in Game 2 of NBA Finals
The San Antonio head coach spoke about how his team can adjust in Friday night's second game of the 2026 NBA Finals against the Knicks.
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Wemby made it clear that he's not worried at all going forward.
where do you get that same confidence from, and what are the main adjustments that you wanna make before game two?
You know, I think we gave ourselves a lot of aspects of the game we need to improve, so it, it didn't take too much film or too deep to dig to find, the second chance points.
It's, it's clearly one of them.
16 assists is not a reflection of this program ever since I've been here, and decades before I was.
and we can be much sharper on just a lot of game plan execution stuff.
And then I think, you know, you add that I think Victor will play better, sure.
I think a couple guys will make more shots than they did, agree.
So if you just do that stuff, that's just gonna happen and just, on its own over time, water finding its level percentage, you know, evening out.
But I think there's a lot of things also we can control that are much more approach, game plan execution driven that we can improve upon before you even get to, you know, h- what did this guy shoot from the field, et cetera, et cetera.
I thought that our offense in general did not put a lot of people in the right situations and spots last night.
New York had a lot to do with that.
They did a good job.
Talons, to your question specifically, did a good job being physical and being in the right spots, but I think the way that we played offensively is, in terms of a, a team and our brand, we didn't play with the pass enough.
We didn't put enough pressure and force o- on the rim and the paint, and so it led to a lot of making or missing shots and us trying to play with talent offensively instead of, playing together and finding opportunities to take advantage of forcing defenses to put, themselves in making decisions of giving up this or giving up that.
And so, New York gets a lot of credit for that, but I think that, we have a lot of room for improvement on that moving forward.
