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The Knicks 20 Point Comeback Saved Their Season · Kenny For Real

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  Speaker 1: It is insane that a singular quarter can change the
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  Speaker 1: entire conversations about your game. Man, My notes are plentiful
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  Speaker 1: about how awful corth in the Towns looked on both
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  Speaker 1: sides of the floor to the first three quarters, and
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  Speaker 1: then that fourth quarter came around and the big burr started.
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  Speaker 1: Per matter of fact, got the let me, let me
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  Speaker 1: start crossing some of these things out about the negative
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  Speaker 1: carth in the Towns too, because just one quarter, it's
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  Speaker 1: all his team needed.
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  Speaker 2: You go down on three. The series is over, y'all,
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  Speaker 2: it is over.
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  Speaker 1: But in this one fourth quarter he has four points
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  Speaker 1: going into the fourth the God is making I saw
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  Speaker 1: a graphic that said that he's making the most money
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  Speaker 1: if any player left in this playoff. He had four
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  Speaker 1: points going into the fourth quarter. He had basically more
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  Speaker 1: fouls than total points score. And then then that fourth
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  Speaker 1: he came alive twenty points, three pointers, get into the
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  Speaker 1: foul line, finishing through contact. I like what Carnthony Towns
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  Speaker 1: is feeling it because he will start to do random
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  Speaker 1: hand gestures because he don't really know what his true
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  Speaker 1: celebration was. He got the body on nim hard than
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  Speaker 1: he pointed at him real quick. Now you know he
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  Speaker 1: didn't let it last, so get it. Take a foul
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  Speaker 1: this point, real quick, one for the montage. Real Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So the first three quarters, I didn't eve want to
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  Speaker 1: say anything negati about Carnthon Town's because he saved the season.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Knicks fans were on the timeline talking about how.
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  Speaker 1: Bad the team had looked, how embarrassed they were to
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  Speaker 1: be Nicks fans, which is absolutely ridiculous. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: I don't give a damn if my team is down
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  Speaker 1: on three in the conference finals. They made it to
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  Speaker 1: the conference finals. You know how many of our teams were.
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  Speaker 1: We were killed to see our team at the conference finals.
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  Speaker 1: Loosen up, man, loosen up. But they ain't got to
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  Speaker 1: think about going down three h because they won tonight,
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  Speaker 1: a game where Jaylen Brunton wasn't on his a game.
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  Speaker 1: He was getting a roasted as well on the defensive
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  Speaker 1: side of the ball. Karnton Town stepped up and did
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  Speaker 1: it big. It was kind of reminiscent of in game
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  Speaker 1: number one, because you remember a game number one, Rick
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  Speaker 1: Carlisle decided that that man, we can't really do much
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  Speaker 1: about Miles turn on this court as good if he
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  Speaker 1: as good as he was in the first half of
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  Speaker 1: Game number one.
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  Speaker 2: Offensively, we can't afford to have him out here.
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  Speaker 1: In Carnthony Towns because Krnthinge's Towns foot speed is just
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  Speaker 1: too much. And if he's also making a three point shot,
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  Speaker 1: we don't really know what to do because we want
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  Speaker 1: to play him high and the Carl town is gonna
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  Speaker 1: blow past miles turning the help is it not gonna
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  Speaker 1: be that fast enough? He got the foot speed, he's
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  Speaker 1: got the shooting, and they, again, if you remember a
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  Speaker 1: Game and one, opted to go smaller. We okay with
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  Speaker 1: having Pascal siaka bully or or try to fight with
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  Speaker 1: him on the block, and then they eventually did a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of that. And when Carnthony Towns is percolating,
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  Speaker 1: but Cat hit a couple of tough shots on Pascal
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  Speaker 1: as well. It's like they forgot about who Carthony Towns was.
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  Speaker 1: It's like Cardia Towns forgot about who he was. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: because let me read you some of the things that
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  Speaker 1: I wrote down about his first half, Carndey Towns had
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  Speaker 1: a couple possessions, not in a row, but in like
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  Speaker 1: a two to three minute stretch where he shot a
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  Speaker 1: thirty foot and I always say thirty foot, It's probably
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  Speaker 1: closer to twenty seven twenty eight foot regardless, like a
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  Speaker 1: thirty foot bomb early in the shot clock, and two
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  Speaker 1: of the times it led to just easy possessions for
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  Speaker 1: the Indiana Pacers to score. And I'm thinking about it,
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  Speaker 1: like why is he doing that? Then I'm recognizing that
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  Speaker 1: if they don't do something early. A lot of the times,
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  Speaker 1: the pressure that the Indiana Pacers are putting on them
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  Speaker 1: ball handlers, they're starting their action or they're really starting
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  Speaker 1: to pick and roll whatever they're trying to do with
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  Speaker 1: like ten seconds left on the shot clock. Carnia Towns
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  Speaker 1: is trying to mix in some early possessions with some
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  Speaker 1: late possessions. Unfortunately, those early possessions led to the Indiana
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  Speaker 1: Paces getting out of running, which is exactly what they
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  Speaker 1: want to do. But even though cardthen Towns was electric
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  Speaker 1: in this one and they don't win this game, but
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  Speaker 1: out his fourth quarter, the thing that stood out more
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  Speaker 1: than anything was the defensive side of the ball for
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  Speaker 1: the New York Knicks, the one thing the Pacers have
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  Speaker 1: done amazingly through the first two games. In the first
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  Speaker 1: half of Game number three, was they got the Knicks
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  Speaker 1: in rotation, and the Knicks felt like they lost their identity.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't know exactly what they were going to do.
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  Speaker 1: And this was one of the few times in this
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  Speaker 1: third quarter in the fourth quarter where I'm watching it like, yes,
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  Speaker 1: they are on a string. They are not letting the
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  Speaker 1: Pacers swing, swing, swing, dribble, penetration, swing, kickout.
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  Speaker 2: It's not bothering them right now.
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  Speaker 1: And the lands to the Pacers having a couple possessions
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  Speaker 1: that went down to the end of the shot clock
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  Speaker 1: where they're throwing up bricks or so on and so forth.
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  Speaker 1: This defense, again Carden Towns is twenty points in the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter matter a lot, but this defense was the
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  Speaker 1: thing that you look at you say, yes, we are
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  Speaker 1: back into this series because maybe if we just bring
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  Speaker 1: this level of intensity, maybe if we bring this level
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  Speaker 1: of cohesioness on the defensive side of the ball.
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  Speaker 2: This series is far from over.
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  Speaker 1: And getting this win in Indy is huge, and they
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  Speaker 1: got another one that they probably got to get as
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  Speaker 1: well in order to to make this series really good,
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  Speaker 1: or to make this series something that you feel like
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  Speaker 1: the Knicks could win. But it's very, very far from over.
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  Speaker 1: I thought o, Gianna Nobi and McHale bridges down the
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  Speaker 1: stretch at an amazing job defensively. I can't I can't
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  Speaker 1: talk about it enough. One thing that it makes Tyres
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  Speaker 1: Halliburton so dangerous is because he's so good at getting
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  Speaker 1: other people.
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  Speaker 2: Involved that sometimes he gets just layups.
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  Speaker 1: He'd get past that first defender and they're so afraid
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  Speaker 1: that he's gonna kick it out to the corner, kick
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  Speaker 1: it out to the wing, or kick it to a cutting.
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  Speaker 2: Guy that he just gets. He had the rim, he
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  Speaker 2: had the ram.
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  Speaker 1: He at the rim sometimes tonight a few times down
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  Speaker 1: the stretch, Tyree's got the exact switch that he wanted
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  Speaker 1: and he didn't do anything but dance at the top
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  Speaker 1: of the key. That's unlike him because like, think about
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  Speaker 1: what this run has looked like for the end Dana
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  Speaker 1: Pacers so far. That was unlike him tonight, and they
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  Speaker 1: really needed him to turn into that klutch guy that
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  Speaker 1: he had been the entire season long and didn't really
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  Speaker 1: showcase today And basically the last offensive possession that mattered,
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  Speaker 1: he danced, dance, danced at the top of the key,
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  Speaker 1: and it didn't It didn't end up meaning anything.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know exactly. I would have to go back.
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  Speaker 1: We watched the film what exactly the Knicks did differently
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  Speaker 1: to get him to not feel as comfortable today. But
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  Speaker 1: sometimes it kind of is the Tyres thing, and then
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  Speaker 1: next game he'll come out and be like, see, I
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  Speaker 1: told y'all, I can still do this.
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  Speaker 2: I know what it is about him when you do
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  Speaker 2: stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: Josh Sharp felt like we didn't get a ton of
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  Speaker 1: Josh Hart's like input on this game until we basically
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  Speaker 1: got to that fourth quarter where he got like three huge,
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  Speaker 1: huge rebounds. He hit some free throws and that might
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  Speaker 1: not mean nothing, but damn it, we watched Game one.
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  Speaker 1: We know what them free throws could really look like
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  Speaker 1: for this tab. So he hit some big free throws.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about after they game with Minnesota last night
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  Speaker 1: that when you are the coach of a team is
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  Speaker 1: down th two, you don't want to go down on three.
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  Speaker 1: You just start doing shit. You try to figure out
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  Speaker 1: some stuff on the fly. The pacer, I mean, the
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  Speaker 1: Knicks today played a lineup that it played zero total
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  Speaker 1: minutes together, zero total minutes together in the regular season
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  Speaker 1: eighty two game regular season zero minutes.
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  Speaker 2: They did it in the conference finals.
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  Speaker 1: So his no stone unturned was playing the line right
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  Speaker 1: over Cameron Paign playing some Landry shaman and the Landry
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  Speaker 1: Shaman hit a three in the corner. But I thought,
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  Speaker 1: for the most part, these guys weren't extraordinary in the
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  Speaker 1: minutes they.
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  Speaker 2: Played, but they did just hold it down.
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  Speaker 1: If you think about who the knicksar is a team
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  Speaker 1: that kind of just needs some people to hold it down,
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  Speaker 1: Jaylen Brunton is getting absolutely taken advantage of on his
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  Speaker 1: He's such One thing I don't like about Jaylen Brust's
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  Speaker 1: defense is how hard he closes out, and I just
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  Speaker 1: feel like the Pacers recognized that very early on. Every
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  Speaker 1: time he closed out, they were just ready to take
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  Speaker 1: that contact whistle that's number four on jay Len Bronson
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  Speaker 1: whistle that's number five and low key. I'm not trying
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  Speaker 1: to disrespect Jaylen Brunson, because Lord knows that the dude
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  Speaker 1: is an absolute dog, But him sending that little span
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  Speaker 1: in that fourth quarter, I guess it was a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the fourth quarter might have been like a blessing
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  Speaker 1: in disguise because it allowed Cards in the Towns to
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  Speaker 1: beat him. You know, you see, I've been seeing clips
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  Speaker 1: over the last couple of days about like other people
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  Speaker 1: on podcasts, whether it be Jeff Tige or one of
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  Speaker 1: the guys on Fox Sports I don't remember his name,
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  Speaker 1: talking about how amazing jaylen Brunton is. But one of
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  Speaker 1: the downsides how amazing he is is he has the
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  Speaker 1: ball so much right and that that makes it so
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  Speaker 1: that old John Andobi or Micheil Bridges or Cord that
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  Speaker 1: the Towns don't really have rhythm. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: I subscribe to that too much, but it made it
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  Speaker 1: I kind of understand that, at least today, because it
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  Speaker 1: allowed Corndon Towns to be like, Okay, I am one
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  Speaker 1: a and if I don't do nothing in this one
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  Speaker 1: eight minutes, then we are going home very soon. So
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  Speaker 1: he came out, he was super I thought mals McBride,
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  Speaker 1: even though he didn't shoot it very well, I thought
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  Speaker 1: he gave them some really good energy in this game,
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  Speaker 1: which was something again that this team desperately needed. This
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  Speaker 1: is one of them like you look at it and say,
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  Speaker 1: like everybody, for the most part, contributed in one way
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  Speaker 1: or another, whether it be Jay Lebrunton when he finally
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  Speaker 1: did get back into this game, hitting the tough, tough floater.
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  Speaker 2: Was it left handed, was it right handed? I don't remember.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just go left handed, left handed floater. Through the
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  Speaker 1: contact he made his free throws down the stretch. This
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  Speaker 1: is a game that you feel really good about if
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  Speaker 1: you're a Knicks fan, because you know through the first
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  Speaker 1: two games that the Pacers have been amazing and do
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  Speaker 1: not get me wrong, like they have been one of
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  Speaker 1: the best teams in the entire playoffs. It's the reason why
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  Speaker 1: they're here. But you can look at game one, number
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  Speaker 1: one and said we left going to rope. You can
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  Speaker 1: look at game number two and say that, hey, we
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  Speaker 1: played we played all right against this team, and now
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  Speaker 1: you got to win a game number three that you
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  Speaker 1: can see yourself convincing yourself.
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  Speaker 2: That you're in this series you can win.
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  Speaker 1: And that's again, that's so crazy because to the first
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  Speaker 1: half of this game, I thought it was over. Let's
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  Speaker 1: now know that the Knicks have a couple of twenty
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  Speaker 1: point comebacks before this game, so I didn't think it
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  Speaker 1: was completely over. But like the crowd was going crazy,
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  Speaker 1: the Knicks are turning the ball over left the right,
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  Speaker 1: They're getting bad possessions, they're not getting stops.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, this is looking real tough, and then
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  Speaker 2: they made it happen.
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  Speaker 1: The Niece Smith injury definitely happened at the worst possible
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  Speaker 1: time for the Indiana Pacers. I thought that their defense
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  Speaker 1: kind of fell apart without him on the court. It's
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  Speaker 1: kind of insane how one singular player can mean that
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  Speaker 1: much to a defensive identity, and you really felt that today.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that mouse Turner called his own number down
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  Speaker 1: the stretch. I didn't really want him to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Probably better looks on the board, but I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, man, what an amazing game. I'm so happy
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  Speaker 1: that this is not about to be a three zero series.
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  Speaker 1: I want both of these series to be loaner for
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  Speaker 1: what it is worth because I'm not ready for the
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  Speaker 1: season to end and then we get to the finals,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So what a game for
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  Speaker 1: the New York Knicks. Hang your head high. I'm excited
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  Speaker 1: to see what happens in game number four.
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  Speaker 2: Shout out with Jadoobi