SergioNYK wrote:

NYKBocker wrote:Game 4 Officials
Zach Zarba
James Williams
Courtney Kirkland
The officiating crew is set for Game 4 at Madison Square Garden. 👀

They all suck.

I actually like Zarba but then again I used to like Marc Davis until very recently.

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Most “politician says a lots of words yet no message nor accountability” response from a no politician, considering they didn’t change the call at all.

What an embarrassment by the league.

Rookie wrote:Just make your shots boys, we are the better team. Oh, and play Hukporti for one hard foul. You’ll be legend in Ny if you break twig boy

Would rather beat Wemby on the court and watch him cry. Break him mentally.

ramtour420 wrote:I see this game as a must win. If we lose 2 at MSG I think our chances drop drastically. I don't understand why we went back to iso-Brunson in the Finals. Things were working so well when we distributed the ball

Relying on Jalen to bring up the ball becomes the problem.

On slower sets where we are not fast breaking or pushing the ball upcourt before their defense sets, the key is to advance the ball faster by chain passing it upcourt. This requires us to stagger 3-4 players at intervals downcourt to receive the ball. It will shave several seconds off the ball usage time and give us more time to run our offense out of different sets that don't all start with Brunson dribbling the ball at the top of the key.

This comes down to coaching and execution. Brown needs to remind everyone of how they got here. If the players are tuned in to the message they will be fine. SA is going to pressure anything from 3/4 to half-court. Trying to dribble through that is the mistake we've been making.

ramtour420 wrote:

BlueKnickers wrote:P.S. The only thing that qualifies as a must-win is when the other team can close out the series with a victory.

The semantics matter.

Stating this is a must-win is unnecessary dramatics and completely inaccurate about the Knicks current situation.

While you are technically right my point has to do with the psychological impact of dropping this game. We do that and the series isn't just even, we will have turned our advantage into a disadvantage.Yrs, It would not exactly kill us, but it definitely wouldn't make us stronger.

I'm not worried so much about their psychology. Their confidence is there. To be able to stage historical comebacks to win games takes confidence, especially when you were wiping teams out just days before.

All I would say is a concern is strategy and I think this comes down coaching + player implementation.

You could say I'm curious to see what they came up with. This is what makes a series interesting. A sweep would have been cool, but it is also cool to win the game after a loss.

Chins up

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