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- 0:00Speaker 1: Can you know who's going to join us? Who's that
- 0:01Speaker 1: aaron Ne Smith is joining us?
- 0:03Speaker 2: Here?
- 0:03Speaker 3: After this?
- 0:04Speaker 1: In the incredible Pacer win one thirty eight to one
- 0:08Speaker 1: thirty five, Aaron, you realize that you've done something not
- 0:12Speaker 1: even Reggie Miller has done in that uniform, and that's
- 0:15Speaker 1: hit eight threes in a playoff game? What got into
- 0:20Speaker 1: you in the fourth quarter when you guys are down
- 0:23Speaker 1: seventeen and you get on fire.
- 0:26Speaker 4: I just knew what the game needed, what my teammates
- 0:27Speaker 4: needed me to do, and you know, I know I'm
- 0:30Speaker 4: a phenomenal shooter, so I just trusted the process and
- 0:32Speaker 4: let it fly shock here.
- 0:33Speaker 5: I'm very impressed with the resiliency of this team. Down fourteen,
- 0:36Speaker 5: you just came out starting shooting threes. Like, who's leading
- 0:39Speaker 5: a bunch of saying, guys, games not over, games on over,
- 0:42Speaker 5: even though we're down fourteen, games not over? Who's leading
- 0:44Speaker 5: that bunch?
- 0:45Speaker 4: You know, it's a collective, man, It's everybody. It's Pascal's
- 0:47Speaker 4: tyres Is Miles. You know, we just we're just a
- 0:50Speaker 4: resilient group. We just know how to fight. We never
- 0:53Speaker 4: give up to the last buzzer sounds, and I think
- 0:55Speaker 4: that's just what makes us a special basketball team?
- 0:58Speaker 3: Aaron, it's Draymond gratulations. Great first win.
- 1:02Speaker 6: You had to challenge most of the night a Guarden
- 1:05Speaker 6: Jayalen Brunson, What's what's it? What do you guys have
- 1:08Speaker 6: to do to stop him, specifically in the fourth quarter? Like, yeah,
- 1:11Speaker 6: he's going to have great games, but I think in
- 1:13Speaker 6: the fourth quarter is where he really take over games.
- 1:16Speaker 6: What do we need to see from you guys to
- 1:18Speaker 6: put that fire out? Although you guys came back and
- 1:20Speaker 6: won the game, I think y'all can still do a
- 1:22Speaker 6: better job there. And you're doing an incredible job of
- 1:25Speaker 6: making him fight the entire game.
- 1:26Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with you.
- 1:27Speaker 4: I think there's a lot of things we can clean
- 1:29Speaker 4: up and do better. But you know, he's a he's
- 1:30Speaker 4: a phenomenal player. I think we just got to make
- 1:33Speaker 4: it tough on him, give him different reads, you know,
- 1:36Speaker 4: forc him to take tough shots, and you know he's
- 1:38Speaker 4: going to make some of them, so you know, we
- 1:40Speaker 4: got to live with some of that. But I think
- 1:41Speaker 4: there's a lot we can clean up.
- 1:42Speaker 7: Yeah, Well, I'm not really sure who's public enemy number one.
- 1:46Speaker 7: You are Tyrese in New York City, But we'll ask
- 1:49Speaker 7: you to score those many points, you also have to
- 1:53Speaker 7: make stops, and so defensively, you guys were having a
- 1:57Speaker 7: tough time. What did you do differently during that time
- 2:02Speaker 7: to make those stops while that run because there was
- 2:05Speaker 7: also a different defensive effort.
- 2:07Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we just sat down, you know, I
- 2:09Speaker 3: just we just fight. So we knew what the game
- 2:11Speaker 3: needed from us.
- 2:12Speaker 4: We knew we all needed to step up, give an
- 2:13Speaker 4: extra two to three percent, and I think we all
- 2:15Speaker 4: did that across the board, and that makes a difference.
- 2:17Speaker 4: You know, we cut off their offensive rebounds a little
- 2:19Speaker 4: bit in that run, and that allowed us to push
- 2:22Speaker 4: and play, and so we were able to play pacer
- 2:24Speaker 4: basketball that way.
- 2:25Speaker 8: My question is twofold number one, how after you made
- 2:30Speaker 8: your first couple threes, were you surprised, like, damn, they're
- 2:34Speaker 8: still leaving me open? That was my first part of
- 2:37Speaker 8: us question. And secondly, how did you have the damn
- 2:41Speaker 8: energy the way you played defense from beginning of the
- 2:44Speaker 8: game to be like fresh as a daisy to make
- 2:48Speaker 8: those five threes? I mean, man, I'm telling you, man,
- 2:50Speaker 8: you must be in some serious shape because you rally
- 2:52Speaker 8: you playing defense on Brunson from the start and you
- 2:56Speaker 8: was fresh as a daisy in the fourth quarter.
- 3:00Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I knew what was gonna be asking
- 3:02Speaker 4: me this season. I knew it was gonna be asking
- 3:03Speaker 4: me this series. So this past week I was just
- 3:06Speaker 4: getting my body right, getting my conditioning right, because I
- 3:08Speaker 4: knew what it was gonna be. It was gonna be
- 3:10Speaker 4: guarding bruns in ninety four feet, fighting over screens, you know,
- 3:13Speaker 4: playing twenty eight thirty plus minutes, being able to make
- 3:15Speaker 4: sure I have my legs, my jumper at the end
- 3:17Speaker 4: of the game. So I prepare for these moments, and
- 3:20Speaker 4: you know, I think just the work just showed and
- 3:23Speaker 4: I was surprised. I kept leaving me open, like the
- 3:25Speaker 4: two pull up threes I had. I was like, Okay,
- 3:27Speaker 4: you don't get I gotta take you.
- 3:29Speaker 1: So yeah, Aaron, congratulations on the game. Another huge comeback
- 3:35Speaker 1: by the Indiana Pacers. Fourth game, you were down at
- 3:38Speaker 1: least seventeen and you come back to win it. But
- 3:42Speaker 1: I do want to also congratulate you on getting Charles
- 3:46Speaker 1: to say not once, but.
- 3:48Speaker 3: Twice, fresh as a day. I appreciate you. We'll see
- 3:55Speaker 3: it from I appreciate you guys. Thank you your voice with.
- 3:57Speaker 7: That high.
- 4:00Speaker 3: It's just trying to. I was just trying to. This
- 4:04Speaker 3: is a day.
- 4:06Speaker 8: Man, you know, I'm telling you, man, that was incredible
- 4:09Speaker 8: his conditioning.
- 4:11Speaker 7: Why was it because he was fresh as days?
- 4:18Speaker 3: Put that on the Tsue Friday. We've got Friday, We've.
- 4:21Speaker 1: Got game two of this series. As I said at
- 4:22Speaker 1: half time, man give me seven of these.
- 4:26Speaker 3: Or how about this, let's play best than nine. It
- 4:28Speaker 3: was tremendous.
- 4:29Speaker 1: So here we go, uh with the highlights of game one,
- 4:34Speaker 1: and we're gonna pick it up in the fourth quarter.
- 4:37Speaker 7: You pick up on the fourth quarter, but only the
- 4:39Speaker 7: first three quarters. You always thought that there was a
- 4:41Speaker 7: pace or pace and you said, man, this is the
- 4:43Speaker 7: pace that they want to play at the next We
- 4:45Speaker 7: didn't think that could sustain that over.
- 4:47Speaker 3: A long period of time, Artie.
- 4:49Speaker 5: I mean, but the key was from brunting when out
- 4:51Speaker 5: with those five files old Genobi and the next thing.
- 4:53Speaker 8: They played excellent basketball. But you know, the one thing
- 4:56Speaker 8: is going to really be interesting. Can they keep this up?
- 4:59Speaker 8: The is gonna come every other day? Now, who'll keep
- 5:03Speaker 8: it up?
- 5:04Speaker 3: To Knicks? The paces going, They're gonna play like this
- 5:07Speaker 3: every game?
- 5:08Speaker 8: This place was absolute. That was a great fucking you
- 5:11Speaker 8: can never let a little man block the shot. Come on, man,
- 5:15Speaker 8: shot truck. He went up and over. But take that
- 5:20Speaker 8: little one, big, that's a great block.
- 5:21Speaker 3: Man to smick bright great play.
- 5:23Speaker 1: And now the Knicks continuing, and there's a couple of
- 5:27Speaker 1: times John just sing three points shoot for.
- 5:30Speaker 3: I thought the game was over. When they've got them
- 5:32Speaker 3: through three point files.
- 5:34Speaker 1: Oh g a picking it up with a couple of
- 5:37Speaker 1: buckets in the fourth quarter.
- 5:38Speaker 3: We'll celebrate too early.
- 5:41Speaker 2: Wide open man, everybody open from watch this hill, everybody
- 5:48Speaker 2: open from that far letter open man.
- 5:52Speaker 3: Come on, man, you gotta switch that. Come on, ye.
- 5:54Speaker 7: Switching by the way, stretch down the stretch. Hey, he
- 6:00Speaker 7: missed a cup of big free throws on this, he said,
- 6:03Speaker 7: looking at to my.
- 6:03Speaker 3: Eyes, and this is the shot.
- 6:06Speaker 1: Watch Halliburton retreat to what he thinks is beyond the
- 6:10Speaker 1: line and he gets.
- 6:11Speaker 3: The louns, but his ras off the line and he's
- 6:15Speaker 3: doing a crazy joke. Side that was crazy.
- 6:18Speaker 1: As Indiana celebrates the joke.
- 6:23Speaker 7: Side still does this won the game on that No,
- 6:27Speaker 7: that would have been a crazy earth but it's still appropriate.
- 6:31Speaker 1: So they celebrate. But then you have to cut the
- 6:35Speaker 1: celebration short because we got more basketball play.
- 6:38Speaker 8: The Knick's going to first four punts, and over time,
- 6:40Speaker 8: I'm like, oh, man, man, maybe they.
- 6:41Speaker 3: Were at the storm.
- 6:43Speaker 7: Not with the three point and the way the game
- 6:44Speaker 7: was going, Chuck, I would have never thought that they
- 6:46Speaker 7: were going to.
- 6:47Speaker 3: Win this game. Huge he was that night.
- 6:51Speaker 1: That three pointer cuts it to one. These guys would
- 6:55Speaker 1: go back and forth.
- 6:56Speaker 3: Look at new.
- 6:56Speaker 7: Harden there, shout out to Mark Field. Well you know
- 6:59Speaker 7: you got five files. You're not gonna file. I'm just
- 7:02Speaker 7: getting to the road.
- 7:03Speaker 3: Tough move, and you can see playing there.
- 7:05Speaker 1: Every time New York had taken the lead, Indiana had
- 7:08Speaker 1: an answer in this and.
- 7:09Speaker 3: Give me that.
- 7:10Speaker 8: But Ernie, you notice one thing different. They got them hard.
- 7:14Speaker 8: They got a Nie Smith, They got everybody to make
- 7:16Speaker 8: a shot. Every big shot the Knicks knee. It has
- 7:18Speaker 8: to be bronzing the towns.
- 7:22Speaker 1: One thirty five, one thirty four, Nicks.
- 7:25Speaker 3: You're trying to hang on. Look at the feed to
- 7:28Speaker 3: them hard. They got weapons everywhere.
- 7:31Speaker 1: One thirty six, one thirty five. Now with twenty seconds
- 7:35Speaker 1: to play, Oh, look out for topping.
- 7:40Speaker 8: He should have got an and one, but you got
- 7:42Speaker 8: to fire him immediately.
- 7:43Speaker 7: Well you know what it's actually was beneficial to the
- 7:45Speaker 7: Knicks because they're only down three at this point.
- 7:48Speaker 8: You'll know if he's gonna make the free throws. When
- 7:51Speaker 8: that ball comes in bounds, you got to file immediately.
- 7:56Speaker 3: That should have been hand on this show easily. One
- 8:00Speaker 3: thirty eight's crazy foul.
- 8:04Speaker 1: Brunson nost what he has got a chance?
- 8:10Speaker 3: You I think gets them two looks is the arms sixty.
- 8:13Speaker 3: They say you're not like us.
- 8:16Speaker 1: Indy, And with that Jalen Brunson and the Knicks watch
- 8:21Speaker 1: that big lead disappear and watch the Indiana Pacers take
- 8:25Speaker 1: game one, one thirty eight to one thirty five. Look
- 8:28Speaker 1: at those numbers on Aaron Nesmith, a thirty point game.
- 8:31Speaker 3: Look at nine out.
- 8:32Speaker 1: Of thirteen and eight out of nine from Deep Halliburton.
- 8:36Speaker 1: Another thirty point game, he scores thirty one.
- 8:39Speaker 3: Crosson, Yeah, grown man.
- 8:41Speaker 1: Going for forty three. He's got the record now for
- 8:45Speaker 1: Knicks with forty point playoff games. Yeah, that is his
- 8:49Speaker 1: eighth and so one thirty eight, one thirty five, Indiana
- 8:53Speaker 1: wins it. This is Rick Carlyle in the locker room,
- 9:00Speaker 1: day one thirteen days, sorry, day one of thirteen days.
- 9:03Speaker 3: All right, way to hang in, all right, we'll clean
- 9:06Speaker 3: some stuff up tomorrow, We'll.
- 9:07Speaker 1: Get ready for the next one.
- 9:09Speaker 5: That sound like, ain't doing nothing, sweet, Ain't done nothing yet,
- 9:13Speaker 5: short and sweet.
- 9:16Speaker 1: The overwhelming pace game one fourth quarter in overtime, fifty
- 9:20Speaker 1: one points for the Indiana Pacers again, down by seventeen
- 9:25Speaker 1: with about six minutes to go, down by fourteen with
- 9:28Speaker 1: about two and a half, and they come back. I
- 9:30Speaker 1: still don't believe what we just saw here. That's that's
- 9:32Speaker 1: the modern day NBA. Though we had a game earlier
- 9:36Speaker 1: this year, right after the trade and Jimmy didn't play.
- 9:38Speaker 1: We were playing at Utah. They score twenty points in
- 9:41Speaker 1: two minutes. That's one of the worst teams in the NBA.
- 9:44Speaker 1: But that's at.
- 9:45Speaker 6: That's the pace that guys can the rate that guys
- 9:48Speaker 6: can score at.
- 9:49Speaker 3: In this lead today.
- 9:50Speaker 5: I know there's a lot of complaining about the three
- 9:51Speaker 5: point shooter, but that's what the three point shooting brings
- 9:54Speaker 5: to the game.
- 9:55Speaker 3: And it was exciting to watch.
- 9:56Speaker 7: Well to make that many points, that's jim Barling that
- 10:00Speaker 7: has to do that. There has to be eras on
- 10:04Speaker 7: the on the other end, on your part in Utah,
- 10:07Speaker 7: that had to be errors, and they were eras tonight,
- 10:10Speaker 7: and and and the Knicks were actually more fortunate than
- 10:13Speaker 7: they should have been because on several occasions on inbound passes,
- 10:17Speaker 7: they there was a slip and possible still that didn't happen.
- 10:22Speaker 7: Brunton gets trapped, throws the ball away and they still
- 10:25Speaker 7: get it. So they they were even more fortunate to
- 10:28Speaker 7: even path the opportunity to go to overtime because they
- 10:32Speaker 7: really made a comedian of errors that could have continued
- 10:36Speaker 7: and made even this game easier for Indiana.
- 10:38Speaker 1: Paces points off turnovers. In this game twenty seven to
- 10:42Speaker 1: four in favor of the Indiana Pacers.
- 10:48Speaker 8: We said, let's see what's gonna come down to two
- 10:51Speaker 8: things pace and rebounded. Even though the Knicks were leading,
- 10:56Speaker 8: it was still an Indiana pace. The Knicks don't score
- 10:59Speaker 8: a hunt. I bet that's their season high. I bet
- 11:04Speaker 8: you that's their season high in points. I know we
- 11:06Speaker 8: can get our crack staff on it. Yeah, that'd be Wonderhill.
- 11:09Speaker 8: Yeh yeah, he'll get on top of that.
- 11:10Speaker 5: Well, okay, staff to me, I could listen, we've all
- 11:15Speaker 5: been in similar games. But you know we heard Rick
- 11:17Speaker 5: Carlisle's speech. I wonder what TIBs speech is about. I
- 11:21Speaker 5: think it would probably be about concentration, and I'm only
- 11:24Speaker 5: gonna pick one thing out. Can't let one guy hit
- 11:26Speaker 5: five threes after two, he's hot after three. Come on,
- 11:30Speaker 5: somebody got to do something. So you know, definitely got
- 11:33Speaker 5: to make free throws down the stress, and you definitely
- 11:35Speaker 5: have to concentrate. You know, I think they lost that
- 11:37Speaker 5: game lack of concentration. Que being up fourteen, being up fourteen,
- 11:41Speaker 5: you gotta close this game out.
- 11:42Speaker 7: I have a question for the panel and you could
- 11:44Speaker 7: be and I have an answer to Do you think
- 11:47Speaker 7: the New York Knicks can play a seven game series
- 11:50Speaker 7: with the Indiana Pacers playing only seven players in double
- 11:54Speaker 7: figured minutes?
- 11:54Speaker 8: No, that's why I picked the Pacers to win this series.
- 12:00Speaker 3: That bossed me about the Knicks.
- 12:02Speaker 8: They played some more players because Campaign didn't play play
- 12:07Speaker 8: nine No. No, but last years he didn't play page
- 12:11Speaker 8: So you can't have guys because the next to me,
- 12:14Speaker 8: they look tired.
- 12:15Speaker 3: They did, they look exhausted.
- 12:17Speaker 8: Because we obviously we have a camera view, but we
- 12:19Speaker 8: can watch players like yo, this man has been over
- 12:22Speaker 8: in the second quarter, and I says, that's but the
- 12:25Speaker 8: Pater's gonna play like this every game. If they play
- 12:27Speaker 8: four games, five games, six game, seven games and now
- 12:31Speaker 8: because the Knicks went an extra game because we were
- 12:34Speaker 8: working on the schedule with the Celtics DC that we're
- 12:38Speaker 8: gonna play.
- 12:38Speaker 3: Every other day. Now, that's right, we are and you
- 12:40Speaker 3: can't get.
- 12:41Speaker 8: So to answer your question, can they play those guys
- 12:44Speaker 8: seven guys every other day?
- 12:46Speaker 3: No, they cannot.
- 12:47Speaker 1: And underdog you say one was the season high for
- 12:50Speaker 1: the Knicks one plus five times? Okay, one thirty five tonight.
- 12:56Speaker 1: But meantime, Indiana has been playing the Willards. Indiana look
- 12:59Speaker 1: fresh as a daisy and winning this game in overtime.
- 13:04Speaker 3: I need to make that my ring tone, the.
- 13:08Speaker 7: Recording that rodeo rodeo slice, recording that one that one
- 13:16Speaker 7: more time, Lady hey Man, get a hand up.
- 13:19Speaker 3: Prestres a daisy.