James Edwards
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 22 Apr
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It's a team that going into tonight, they were five and seven against the top eight teams in the East. Now they're six and seven and will likely get to seven and seven tomorrow against Atlanta, as they obviously are very depleted right now and pivoting toward the tank. So.
It is it's going to be a situation where the Knicks need to try to rack up these wins, not just because like they need them, because I agree with you. Like, I don't think Indiana is going to catch them in the standings. Yeah. But just like to continue to build confidence, can continue to find ways against different play styles.
Indiana, obviously, is one of the fastest and most kind of free teams that there are. And I thought tonight the Knicks did a good job of just like being physical. I think they had 70 points in the paint. Towns didn't settle for threes like he took. He took a decent amount, but he was getting to the paint, had a bunch of and ones. Josh Hart was cutting them to death in the dunker spot.
Offensive rebounds. Those two really carried them. Brunson had foul trouble. I think he got five, two minutes into the third, three minutes into the third. It was just a very kind of like grinded out and outlast your opponent. And the Pacers had opportunities to make it close. The Knicks played just enough good defense, I think, to keep the Pacers at arm's length.
And then just being able to kind of rack up those points in the paint and those and ones, I think, was huge. And they did so well on the glass, too. So. I think that they found a little bit of a blueprint there with just being physical against the Pacers. And I thought it warmed down at the end and allowed the Knicks to kind of extend themselves in the last four or five minutes of that game.
That's the question that they're trying to figure out. That's the question we're trying to figure out. And I think there's two things with that. As you mentioned, Towns playing the five, they obviously they know the importance of that offensively. Right. Yeah. That opens up so much for their offensive spacing.
It's it's what's made them who they are, which is one of the most high powered, the second most the second best offense in basketball. Now, defensively, where the issues come, and I noted this when they made the trade for him, it's not Cat and Jalen's fault that they have limitations defensively. They compete, they both try, but they have limitations.
One guy is smaller than Jalen, not the quickest feet. Cat is bigger, has had injuries, not the most nimble. And you see teams, specifically Boston, just spam the pick and roll over and over and over until they get Brunson on Tatum or Brunson on Brown, and then they get past him, and then it's one move and they're past Cat.
And it's pretty much just trying to put those two in the action, and it takes away. And then if OG comes to help, if Mikkel comes to help, if Josh comes to help, they got shooters everywhere. And I think the stat you mentioned was a tremendous stat. I think it was DJ Ace, who's a big Knicks fan, I think a lot of that is the middle teams and the top teams.
You have more than likely have an elite creator at the very least. Like if we're including I don't know where the Pistons fall on that. But Kate has been one of the I know Dave hates to hear this. Kate has been one of the best.
No, I'm with you. He's been one of the best pick-and-roll players this year. Trey, again, in the middle of the pack. I don't know where they are offensively. They're a middle-of-the-pack team. Trey has been one of the best pick-and-roll players, even when the Bulls had Levine. And the Bulls beat the Knicks earlier this year.
There are so many good playmakers at the point of attack in basketball, and the Knicks see them often. And I think that when you have those ones that are above good – They're able to kind of take those disadvantages to the tool shed, and they're able to generate offense for the team too. So I think that's the big thing.
I think teams – the really, really good teams are putting Brunson and Cat in the action. Again, it's not their fault. They are – Both, they both try, they both compete. They just have limitations. And that's why I kind of had questions about the makeup of the roster after the trade, because I, I didn't think the Knicks would be worse, but I wasn't sure that they would be better.
I just knew that they'd be different. And I think it's shown itself there. They were really good offense team last year. They're, way better this year, even though I think they were top five last year. Where they're at this year is even better. And defensively, they were fifth last year, and they're 17th this year. And that's a pretty big gap.
Obviously, Dallas, I think, was a top five offense last year and 18th on defense in the regular season. So it can lead to something, right? But I do think that is the biggest – That is the biggest hurdle they have to climb, having two players who have limitations defensively.
No, it's not. And I think you could make the case that he is one of the 15 most important players to winning in basketball this season. I think you could make the case that he's been the Knicks' second best Definitely their most consistent player if you're counting both sides of the ball and maybe their second or third best player this year.
I wrote a story a few weeks ago how he has the first he's going to has a chance to be the first player under six foot eight to average. What is the numbers? I'm trying to find it here. I can't find it right now. At least 14 points, nine rebounds, five assists and a steal while shooting about 50% from the field and 35% from three. He's six foot four.
I think people forget that the only players to ever do it are Embiid, Jokic and Larry Bird. So think about a six foot four guy. Everyone's like, you just pulled, you're just, you could pick point, pick any stats and make a weird thing out of it. Well, only three guys have done it. I'm not saying, I'm not saying Josh Hart is in the same conversation, but I think it goes to tell you how I'm,
impactful he is to winning, especially at his size. Well, he's weird.
We've talked about it. I've mentioned it to him. Like, those are the type of guys that every championship team has. And we could just use recent memory, right? Like Contavious Caldwell Pope helped the Lakers win, helped the Nuggets win. Bruce Brown, right? Draymond Green's the ultimate example. I mean, we could go on and on on those X factors, whatever you want to call them.
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