Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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.
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Chapter 2: 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. Because when they lose OG and Mitchell Robinson, they lose their defense. Like, it is done. Their rear protection is gone. Obviously, what Mitchell Robinson does as a rebounder is hugely important for them. So, you know, we can throw this one out, but it is, again...
They have struggled to keep these guys on the court, especially Mitchell Robinson. You know, they got to hope that they can stay healthy. Speaking of healthy, Wemby looked good last night. Looked very healthy. He only played 26 minutes, though.
Sadly, this this was an absurd game because you texted me and said, go see what Wemby was doing. And we weren't going to cover the game. The Lakers sat everybody.
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Chapter 3: How did Wemby perform against the Lakers?
And then you can go to your two-man game with Alperin and have that high-low balance. So I think... If you want to pivot and you want to find another branch of your identity, I think it's a smart idea to lean on one of the greatest scorers of all time and say, hey, let's put the ball in your hands and allow you to create and see what happens after that.
Yeah, I saw that. He's got 1,020 plus point games now. It could be a million, and I would believe you. Yeah, he's fourth on the all-time list. I mean, it's, yeah.
No, Kevin Durant's incredible. You know what's funny about KD? And I watch a guy in Toronto and Brandon Ingram who tries to replicate what Kevin Durant does. And both of those guys, there's a quality that's difficult to get the ball to them, which is they're both skinny dudes. And it takes a while for both of them to fight through screens and get into the post and the post entry pass itself.
It feels like it's a lost art to actually get the ball into their hands quickly. And I think that's something the Rockets struggle with. It's like the timing of getting the ball into Katie's hands a lot quicker compared to having him be the trigger guy in certain actions. Should Reed Shepard start?
For what this team needs, no. I think he's more effective as a change of pace guard. Now, if you're looking at a situation where, and this has been something that's very confusing to me, since Steven Adams went down, they've only played, like their small ball group, the most minutes they've played is like 35 or 36.
And I thought that because he may have said that he was going to lean more on small ball, you know, in the wake of Steven Adams' season-ending ankle injury. We haven't really seen that much small ball from this group since then.
I mean, there was a couple games early on after Stephen got hurt where you kind of saw, you know, KD and Jabari at the four and a five and Josh and the man and Tari and the balls moving. But we haven't really seen that much since then. So going back to your earlier point about
another way to pivot or another wrinkle in their offense, potentially, I think going back to small ball could be an option. It's always there. I know Jabari has always talked about why he can be effective as a stretch five. He can handle the ball a bit, shot create a bit. You pair that with a KD and a smart player in the, in the back roller, like in a man or a read,
and Tartt now you might have you know optionality versatility on both ends of the floor so for Reed he's more effective coming off the bench being aggressive going back to what Dave said if he's taking six threes a game that's not really why you're there that needs to be close to the ten the double digits to at least force the defense to have to react like if defenses know that
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