Frank Isola

The Knicks felt like they went in there...

with a bit of a mental edge.

Now, were they down 20 in both games, the first two games of the series?

Yes, they were.

But I always felt there was an arrogance about Boston.

It was like, all right, we're up 20.

Now it's your turn to just give up and stop fighting.

But that wasn't going to be the Knicks.

under Tom Thibodeau.

So they came back in those first two games, which changed everything.

What did Boston shoot?

25 of 100 on three-pointers.

So when they were struggling, they didn't change the way that they played.

When they had a chance to bury the Knicks in both of those games, they didn't.

I felt like their arrogance got in the way, and I don't think that'll happen this year if they play, because now they'll hear how the Knicks beat them last year in the playoffs.

And I think when you got guys like Tatum,

Brown, Derek White, Peyton Pritchard, those guys are mentally tough players.

There's no way Boston's winning that many games during the regular season without Tatum unless it wasn't a mentally tough team.

I do.

And I think where they're not having to beat both Boston and