Ian Begley

And it looked like he was going to be on the outside looking into the playoff rotation.

And here he is fourth quarter in the middle of a historic comeback and playing a significant role in the comeback.

It is.

And again, like, I don't want to say he was counted out, but he, I don't want to say played his way out of the rotation because that's too harsh, but whatever it was, Mike Brown really went away from him in a major way in the regular season.

And again,

staying ready and being present and that's what these guys have talked about a lot during that 13 game winning streak and just generally um they always talk about you know it's it's zero zero whatever the series is it's zero zero in their heads and it sounds like a cliche right but then

You go to last night and they're down 27 at the half.

And after the game, we're asking them about, you know, what do you talk about in the locker room?

And, you know, what's the messaging?

And Alvarado said his thing was, let's just play the right way.

Let's play hard because, you know, whatever we do in the second half here, win or lose, it could carry over into game five.

Karl-Anthony Towns was talking about they have the experience on these comebacks.

He referenced the Boston games, he said, in that halftime locker room.

Yeah, and Jalen Brunson said, you know, just hit singles.

Hit singles, hit singles, and it's not going to happen all at once, but, you know, done this before.

And look, all that stuff sounds hokey to us guys who have –

heard these cliches and heard these stories from teams across the league.

But it seems like the Knicks truly have embraced that, have embraced the idea that they can come back because they've done it before and they know that it's possession by possession, chipping away, chipping away.

And so it's just interesting to hear the messaging in that halftime locker room considering everything that was at stake and considering how the game played out.

Yeah, I do think it'll be a good game.