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I want to say I applaud Hartenstein and also Donte for bringing a physical element to the game and intimidate thr Pacers. Pacers were shook, especially during that run after the Turner 3's. That was an incredible answer by the Knicks.

VDesai wrote:Its not a simple change - playing that small against a team with length and winning the boards isn't a no brainer. I think the thought was you put in Achiuwa who is good against Siakam, everyone stays in their slot and you try to dominate the boards and offset the lack of shooting. But we didnt win the boards with that lineup and we did tonight with the smaller group. Just goes to show rebounding is about effort not size.

I want to say I applaud Hartenstein and also Donte for bringing a physical element to the game and intimidate thr Pacers. Pacers were shook, especially during that run after the Turner 3's. That was an incredible answer by the Knicks.

I totally agree with you saying it's not normally a no brainer. The thing that made it one for me is that Brunson ability to drive to the hoop is our only effective way to breakdown the defense. What he does after driving does not matter. Everthing comes from the initial breakdown of the D. It is why we are trash when he sits. We have no one else who can create their own shot or breakdown the defense.

So you have to ask youself is starting 2 or 3 player that teams can sag off of smart? each payer that you can sag off of makes Brunsons ability to breakdown the defense much harder. Since everything we do comes from that you gets a bad loss like the last game.

There are more than one ways to get to the same goal. If you want to out rebound the oppostion you could simply play bigger guys. However, you have to assess the opporunity cost of doing that. If your big guys can't shoot you are then killing the most important thing we have and that is Brunsons breaking down the D. So to get the same goal of out rebounding the opposition you can just spread out the defense more and give your good rebounding bigs less bodies to fight against for rebounds. The opporunity cost for the playing small is having Pascual go off because he is too big for Hart. I rather take my chances of that happening than killing space for Brunson.

And of course, Ihart... best game i've ever seen him play. Turner hit those 3's on him but other than that Ihart was just dominate.

And Burks... I mean he's come out of nowhere. Thought he was washed but he can still score and he's been a huge blessing.

Jhart also "only" playing 39 min, and just 24 the game before, and now two more days off... he should be fresh.

I said before the game, the one thing that has hurt us most outside of injuries was Miles disappearing, he showed up big time last night and it makes such a huge difference when he's hitting shots and can play 40minutes.

whether he starts or not i trust the coaching staff with that, but we need 24mpg from Precious and he gave us those solid minutes.

Now we're at least back to having 7 solid guys and if we can escape this series and get OG back we might actually have a shot.

Love it!

nycericanguy wrote:hard to overstate just how good Burks has been, 17ppg in just 23mpg on 53/50 shooting. he has changed this series at a time when things were looking real dire.

Now we're at least back to having 7 solid guys and if we can escape this series and get OG back we might actually have a shot.

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Chandler wrote:Did anyone else catch that comment last night i think from SVG. He was relaying that when Carlisle was asked about the Knicks supposedly he had some pause for reflection and then said something like they’re a bunch of Navy Seals in Knicks uniforms

Love it!

Stan did come around. Credit where credit due. The Navy Seal comment was cool.
As for Foster, we seemingly lost anything to do with Video but that was the NBA center and video. Most of the calls objectively were correct. Brunson does get bumped a lot but he is also banging into the defender so it looks very physical. It is. He gets a lot of them and he had nesmith in foul trouble.

Indy was down only seven in the 3rd. Knicks then blew them out.

DDV blocks, physical play, and put back dunks were awesome. True "Starks like" game! He was cold from the outside.

Lets Discuss the Becky Hammon comment. Was that a few weeks ago? Two months ago? Jalen is proving her wrong with his play. I'd even say he has taken his game and rep to another level this playoffs. She did say "With few exceptions". Brunson is showing he might be one of them. Lets be real, this kid came in the league with little fanfare and while he did good in Dallas and opened a window of potential, there was little to to say "This kid will be top 5 MVP and 1st or second All NBA". Perhaps in a bing bong haze someone did say it?
Im not defending her as I could care less, but this notion of "Us vs the world" is a bit dramatic.
Knicks and Thibs are defying logic. As said last night only Brunson was a starter on this team at the beginning of the season. Grimes, Mitch, Randle and RJ with Jalen. As great as OG has been that we can still do what we did last night without him is quite an accomplishment!

Indy has not lost at home for some time. Logic says this goes 7. Logic left the building along time ago.
Indy does not have the mental fortitude the knicks have. They do have talent.

Glad the game is Friday, I have tickets to a show tomorrow night.