Pacers Embarrass Knicks + Rockets Offensive Struggles
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Good morning and welcome to the NBA Daily presented by Amazon Prime for February 11th, 2026. I'm Dave DeFore here with Espera Henney. Coming up, the Knicks suffer an embarrassing loss, Wemby goes nuts, and Kelly Eco is here to talk about the Rockets. Good morning, everybody. What's up? As thankful for the Spurs. Oh, giving us a little bit of an earlier night. Yeah. Blowing out the Lakers.
Yeah. Nobody played for the Lakers. Yeah. But Wemby just decided to make it his playground.
It was nuts. Yeah. Yeah. We'll we'll get to that in a second. Before we get there. let's go negative man the knicks lost to the pacers 137 134 in overtime and this is a stinker for the knicks who've been pretty good nine and one in their last 10 coming into the game it's just one of those it felt like a game that was the week of the all-star break But the Knicks, like they just felt like they just didn't have enough steam to finish them off. And then we saw in overtime, they went scoreless the first four minutes. I didn't think they were going to score a point before their little hectic comeback.
I mean, honestly, it was it was bizarre that they even forced it into overtime because it felt like the game was out of reach. Pascal Siakam missed the Free throw, there was an opportunity. I think it was a two-point game. Landry Shammott missed the shot. Then Carl Anthony Towns got fouled on an offensive rebound. Knocked down two free throws. They force overtime. But it was bizarre that they even got to overtime because of how, to your point, lackadaisical the offense looked. I mean, they shot 30% from three last night. No Giannopi, no Mitchell Robinson, which is important to note here. They were clearly missing some depth, which matters for them. But yeah, it was a tough game for the Knicks. And more than that was Aaron Neesmith locked up Jalen Brunson in that overtime.
Don't get me wrong. Jalen Brunson still ended up with 40 points. But locked up is relative here.
I would say the last eight minutes of the game, Aaron Neesmith really dominated that matchup to a certain degree. Again, Brunson looked like he was out of gas. Karl-Anthony Towns, you know, look, you look at the stat sheet, you see 22-14. Okay, had a decent game, but the defense wasn't there for him, right? Yeah, he got fouled out in this game, too. Fouled out. You know, Mike Breen and Clyde Frazier Not very happy with the way Kat's been playing.
What happened in the Knicks vs. Pacers game?
They were openly that was surprising because, you know, obviously it's a home broadcast. Yeah. And to me, that's always telling when the home broadcast is talking about a specific player. And it was, you know, Mike Breen saying that Kat should really stop with the complaining to the foul, complaining on the foul calls. And then Clyde was talking about how he messed up on the offensive foul that forced him to get fouled out.
A little bit of a bad call, I would say, by the referee. But I at least understand the sentiment. Like, you know, you don't want to stick your leg out. Yes. You know, on the screen. But, you know, the Knicks and they've got this is the first game of a back to back. And so they've got the Sixers tonight. You you lost the easy one. You know, now you can't, I don't know how you, can you rest guys on the second night of a back-to-back now? Probably not. I don't know if that was their plan, you know, obviously, but now you like, you need to pick up this win. No, of course.
And, and this, these are the type of losses that are deflating. If you're a Knicks fan, right? All of this momentum buildup, you just mentioned they were nine and one, they were looking good. Maybe they had turned a corner and a loss like this kind of reminds you of some of the flaws of this team in terms of the shot quality down the stretch. It looked like it was, hey, Jalen Brunson, please save us. Hey, Carl Anthony Towns, please save us. And some of the same offensive issues that we saw last year were rearing its head tonight. And it was against a familiar foe. Right.
Well, the Pacers in MSG is just something else. But the Knicks are also on this sort of tightrope when it comes to their depth.
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