Chapter 1: What were the key factors leading to the Knicks' loss?
This was one of these, you know, wide-open shooting nights where everybody forgot to play defense. And let's face it, Jalen Brunson had an opportunity three different times at the end of this game to make a difference and maybe lead his team to victory, and he missed three shots. So, you know, those three shots and somebody else, you know, again, the trio that ā
has been a big part of losing to these guys in the playoffs without Tyrese Halliburton basically ran rough shot and had, I don't know how many wide open shots or where that's the thing. I like to me, like the Nick defense has been good and they go out and they get Jose Alvarado.
Chapter 2: How did Jalen Brunson's performance impact the game?
He's supposed to be like this tenacious defensive player. This was his first game at home as a new, as a new New York Nick. And, um, T.J. McConnell, I kind of had his way with him last night. So I know he's new here. He's got to figure it all out. He's going to be fine. I'm not worried about that. But I do worry about something that you keep bringing up.
And it's so obvious that now I'm watching Carl Anthony Towns like I was last year a little bit differently because... of your take on the way that he's playing and the way that Mike Brown and he look like they're not getting along.
Yeah, I mean, I don't think it's not getting along. It's just that I don't think either one of them know how to deal with each other. And I do think that Jalen Brunson is a part of this as well. As you mentioned, Jalen Brunson had three separate times I mean, do you see how many shots Jalen Brunson took last night?
And I understand you're missing two starters, but one of them is Mitchell Robinson. But Jalen Brunson shouldn't be hero ball with this team, even with OG Ananobi and Mitchell Robinson out.
I mean, there was a guy, and I already forget his name, that was covering Carl Anthony Towns, who I looked up because I'd never heard of the guy, and apparently he was on the Nick Summer League team, and he wasn't even going. Good enough to cut it there. And this Indiana Pacers team that I'm not even sure... I mean, they might be tanking at this point. And they did have three starters still.
They've got these bums out there. And in critical moments... And I know he's got five fouls on him. And he's always got fouls on him. But in these critical moments where you're like... This is when you use this man.
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Chapter 3: What role did the Knicks' defense play in the defeat?
That you're not using this man. That's the thing, and I don't know if that's more.
Is that more on Brunson, or is it more on Carl Anthony Towns, or is it more on Mike Brown, the coach? I think. And by the way, they have won, what, nine out of their last 11?
Yes, but this is right. But here's one of these things that we talk about is you have to understand where the complaining is coming from. This is what happens when you have a team that fired a coach, then prior to that made all these big trades to get to the NBA Finals and win it. And we are a starved fan base for a championship and even a Finals appearance from the Knicks.
So when we see things that look like major problems or maybe something that is a rash that could spread and hold them back from a championship, I want to talk about it. And the good stuff, I understand the good stuff. But what I'm worried about... Is this team going to look like a team down the stretch in a critical game, or is it just going to be Jalen Brunson putting the team on his back?
Because, you know, and Carl Anthony Towns doesn't, like, I don't even need him to be great any longer. But in a situation like last night, it was just so obvious. that this was a night where he needed to be a factor offensively. And I need to know why he's not getting the ball in those situations. And when you ask, like, I don't know the answer to it. When you ask, is this Mike Brown?
Is this Carl Anthony Towns?
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Chapter 4: How did the absence of key players affect the Knicks' strategy?
Is this Jalen Brunson? I do think a little bit of each. But I just, and then, of course, when he gets the ball, he can't. It's his sixth foul, and then ends up going out of the game. Fouls out. But there's a disconnect there that I'm really concerned about. This is not all on Towns. I'm being fair. It's not all on Towns. I don't like him as a player, and I don't think he's a championship player.
I've said it a million times. But there's something else going on there. There's something where Mike Brown is either looking at Carl Anthony Towns and saying, I need to get the absolute minimum out of this guy. It's almost as if he's saying, I'll be happy if Carl Anthony Towns rebounds the way he rebounds and gives me a little more on the defensive end. That's all I need them to do.
Just do that. And Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart and OG Ananobi and Mikael Bridges and all these other guys that I have, they'll pick up the slack. They'll be well-rounded players. Mitchell Robinson will do what he's doing. You just rebound. Stay out of the way. Occasionally, we'll use you. Hit some threes when you can. He only had six three-point attempts last night. It was one of six.
But we're just going to kind of use you in fits and starts and spurts.
And I don't think that works. Last night should have been a 40-point game for him. Easy. That's the way it should have been, but it wasn't. And I think it's because of probably the lack of touches. And a lot of that has to do with his foul trouble and the situations that he puts himself in. But I do...
Also know that when the Knicks are healthy and they have their seven, eight, nine-man rotation and it's all working, then this is when they played their best. And when you're missing a guy like OG last night because of, I don't know, these maintenance days off, this whole thing. I thought we got rid of him.
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Chapter 5: What were the implications of Carl Anthony Towns' performance?
rid of all this crap in the NBA, but I guess now we're going to make sure that we have all these rest days. We're going to make sure guys aren't playing back-to-backs, or if there's a little bit of a tweak here, a little bit of a tweak there, we're going to use that as an excuse not to play. I think that's part of it.
When they have their full complement of players out there, I think that's when they're at their best. That's when they understand what they're doing on defense. They're communicating more, as we heard from Josh Hart and Joan Brunson in their podcast. Last night was basically a night where Defense was, it was not, it was optional.
And the amount of open shots that the Pacers had and the amount of open shots that the Pacers made ultimately came down to beating the Knicks. And, you know, the Pacers have won, they had won 13 games going into the game. 13 games. They were 13 and 40.
Yeah, I mean, they were terrible. And I'm fine with when you have back-to-backs and the maintenance stuff. This is one of the reasons why Mike Brown was brought in as well because the front office believed that some of the criticisms of Tom Thibodeau about playing the guys too many minutes and whatever and believed that that was a factor. So he was going to do this. I'm not surprised.
But what bothers me is... that the rest of the team, you know, doesn't step up, doesn't play defense, takes this game for granted, thinks that they could just go out there without a couple of their important guys and show up and win. And, like, they turned it on late, and they end up getting overtime.
But then it's like, so now we're in a situation where you basically, you know, you mailed in a game defensively, but then you had to end up using extra effort going into overtime. Now you're on a back-to-back. You've got to travel to Philadelphia against a real team. It's just this was stupid. This game was stupid. It was a stupid loss. Stupid game. The whole thing was stupid. Yes, it was stupid.
You've been saying stupid a lot lately. But it was stupid. I mean, it was. You shouldn't have lost that game. It was silly. I love Wally, but I hear Wally at the postgame. It was a rivalry game. I'm like, Wally, my ass. Rivalry game?
Remember he called out Halliburton a few years back and he got in trouble for that. He feels like he's a part of this rivalry with the Indiana Pacers. He doesn't even play.
And there is, when that team is actually that team, that team's not the team that's a rival with the Knicks. They're nothing. They should have been blasted, by the way. They got 40 losses. They should have been killed last night.
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Chapter 6: How did coaching decisions influence the game's outcome?
Yes. So I don't want to hear how they all of a sudden magically woke up because it was the Knicks. I mean, they got three guys that we ever even knew. existed on this basketball team last night, and somehow they end up beating the Knicks. But that was a pathetic defensive effort. I mean, and I'll give Alvarado a pass for one night, but, you know, Brooklyn kid, tenacious, this and that.
I mean, what a dud that was.
Yeah, it was amazing. Holy hell. It's just the three-point shot attempts, okay, last night. So the Pacers were 18 for 45. They shot 50 of 97. And the Knicks were 14 of 46. And that's obviously right there, the three-point discrepancy. And the Knicks shot 50% last night, too. That's why the score was so high.
Yeah.
Because I think defense was optional.
So, I mean, I'm not a huge box score guy, you know? I'm not a huge box score guy, but do me a favor. Box score guy, yeah. Just from you, and I don't know if you've looked this up yet, but you watch the game, right? What do you think the number, the discrepancy number between Jalen Brunson's shots and the second guy is? Because I think it's got to be significant. Like it has to be.
I'm just watching the game. So just tell me how many shots Jalen Brunson took then to the next guy on the Knicks.
31 to 17. Carl Anthony Towns took 17. And actually part of those 31, a bunch of them came in overtime. And the fact of the matter is he missed his last three. But that's the hero ball thing that we don't want.
But those are shots that he normally makes. Yeah, but if he's not making them, maybe don't go back to the well the second and the third time.
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Chapter 7: What are the concerns about the Knicks' current team dynamics?
I agree, but there's so much talent on this team and they're so good that he doesn't need to be doing that. I mean, this isn't like... Like one great player and a bunch of misfits. No, I know that. So that's what's concerning to me.
Especially when he, and then when he passes the ball, he's looking at Landry Schammett as opposed to looking at Carl Anthony Towns, who's got a massive mismatch on him.
Yeah, that, well, you know, it doesn't really make much sense to me. Like, I mean, the coach should be talking about, this is the thing about the Super Bowl that just happened. Like, the offensive coordinator's got to talk to the quarterback. Look, they're blitzing. We're going to try to do this to help you manage the blitz.
But if we don't do this, you've got to be aware that the blitz may be coming. And then when the quarterback doesn't see it and throws an interception because he can't handle it, now who do you blame, the player or the coach? I guarantee you Josh McDaniels was getting his quarterback prepared. This is the thing where the coach has got to say to Jalen Brunson, look, we have a mismatch.
We have to use ā Carl Anthony Towns in this scenario because he was the one that's supposed to be, you know, he's making $60 million a year. Come on.
Yeah, and I know every situation isn't going to be for Towns, and there's going to be games against the Pistons, and hopefully they're in a series against the Pistons.
If they're in the series against the Pistons, and let's say it's the Eastern Conference Finals, you know we're going to be hearing, you know, all that kind of screaming and yelling and the flailing and the falling on the ground. Right. Because that guy Durant is going to knock his ass to the ground.
Well, this is my point. So in a situation like that, it's like, all right, we know that from a toughness factor and a big man factor that they're going to have an advantage physically. So maybe we don't think about him as a big offensive option in certain critical situations. But that's not last night. Every game is not the same. Yeah, of course. And this was a night where you've got to use him.
You have to. I mean, whatever. Well, their defense sucked last night. It was. It was terrible.
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