Knicks or Nuggets — More Concerning Comeback? Plus, Game 1 Breakdowns, Steph’s Run, and Stopping Jokic with Richard Jefferson
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What were the highlights of the Knicks and Nuggets comeback?
On today's episode of the podcast, we go deep. Not as deep as some of those three-point attempts from the Celtics, but a great comeback from the Knicks on the road and the Nuggets on the road. What did we learn from those matchups? We'll talk a little bit more on those games and the Game 1 wins by the road team with Richard Jefferson. the voice of the NBA Finals on ABC and ESPN. We're just going to go through a bunch of stuff with Jefferson, just some basketball stuff, all of these series, and then his Mount Rushmore teammates because this dude has an all-time teammate list and life advice. We have two more game ones in the book, second round of the NBA playoffs, and all the road teams keep winning.
New York and Boston and obviously Denver and that thrilling win at Oklahoma City. I'd start by saying there are two games that through the course of the first two hours of the games, I'm sitting there thinking, okay, this is probably going to go the way I thought it would go. Boston's up huge. And it felt like OKC was in control. And that's not what happened to close out both of those.
How did the Knicks' defense perform against Boston?
So let's go through some of the stuff I thought was interesting and what ultimately happened. So a Knicks defense that finished 13th in the NBA that felt like Where the conversation would end on whether or not the Knicks could win an NBA title and whether or not they could beat any of the special teams, which they struggled against so much during the regular season. A team that has Brunson going up against Drew Holiday, Derek White. Jalen Brown, Jason Tatum on the perimeter when he can't get Porzingis, or more importantly last night, Horford and switches, which he's going to look to do every time the bigs are out there, especially with Horford. Although Horford, I still think at this age, holds up a lot better than you could ever imagine he was going to be doing. That was going to be a much more daunting task than switching into Beasley. Hardaway Jr., Schroeder, who fights but doesn't necessarily have the size, and Cade, who's just not exactly, even with his size, somebody that you're afraid of defensively.
So that was one part of the matchup. You're like, this is entirely a different level of a challenge here for Brunson. And also the Cat part of this, where Cat can't play off of Porzingis, he can't play off of Horford the same way he could play off of Dern against the Pistons, and knowing that because the Celtics are very hunt-happy in their approach to offensive basketball, that Cat was going to be brought up into all of these actions over the course of him being out there for two hours. So there were some real basketball things that we've already seen outplay this way. But this defense that finished 13th defensively, in the regular season was 11th defensively after the all-star break and only one point worse per 100 possessions than boston's defense and where boston finished after the all-star break even though boston just kind of offensively smoked everyone and finished i think it was like an absurd uh 20 plus wins because one team played 28 games the other team played 27 games
But I think there's another part of the Knicks conversation that goes all the way back to June when the Knicks had made the trade for Mikkel Bridges. And when that happened, Bill and I, I don't know if it was a scheduled podcast or we did an emergency pod for the Bridges trade because it's right around the draft where you're like, okay, the concept of Bridges with this team.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What were the highlights of the Knicks and Nuggets comeback?
0:51–1:53
2
How did the Knicks' defense perform against Boston?
1:53–5:24
3
Why did Boston's three-point strategy backfire?
5:24–14:08
4
What adjustments did the Nuggets make to secure their win?
14:08–34:48
5
How does Richard Jefferson view Steph Curry's career evolution?
34:48–48:59
6
What role does dribbling play in player development?
48:59–1:40:57
Speakers
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