Fred Katz

The Knicks cannot get to the rim.

Victor Wambanyama, the first quarter and a half of this, I mean, he was great defensively the whole game.

I mean, the first quarter and a half, two quarters of this game, by Wemby standards...

The defensive performance was completely and utterly outrageous.

It was just like, oh my goodness, how are you supposed to do anything here?

With about five minutes or so left in the second quarter, Knicks are on a little bit of a run.

This is when Brunson started to get a little hot.

They're on like a tiny little run.

They were down 13, and I think it was Josh Hart hits a three, and then Brunson ends up hitting a three off of an offensive rebound.

And on the next possession, with about five minutes left in the quarter, Brunson drives on, I think it was Fox, and he goes left to that same spot on Fox.

Brunson loves to release his floater at around eight feet or so.

Instead of doing that, he gets to basically the nail

And he kind of pulls up on Fox a little bit early.

And I think it caught Fox a little bit by surprise where he pulled up.

His feet were technically in the paint, just barely.

It was the Knicks' first paint points of the night.

And I think that that was right around when Brunson decided, you know what?

No one's getting all the way to the paint tonight.

All these floaters that I do normally from six to eight feet, I got to do them from 10 to 13.

And the rest of the night, we saw him roast from that shallow paint area instead of the deeper mid-paint area.