DLeethal wrote:

nycericanguy wrote:As great as Tatum was, I mean he was having an all time game... Brunson was right there with him. We gotta appreciate what we are seeing, Brunson is an all time great. It's comical that some even suggested KAT was the best player on this team early on.

Yea that was going down as an all time duel. Worth noting we were up 7 when he got injured. Brunson won the duel and Tatum missed a couple to give us breathing room.

OG had the loose ball and was going in for a dunk to make it 9

First thing I did this morning in a panic was check my phone and make sure I didn't dream last night and holy **** yesterday really happened! We FINALLY won a playoff game at the Garden and also won on that putrid network ESPN!!!

Another chapter written in the Jalen Brunson story and it was another exhilarating performance! That 3rd quarter he had putting the team on his back and bringing them back down 14 was incredible. The Cap with 18 points and finished with 39 total and even had 12 assists! This guy as our PG and leader is the equivalent of a daily threesome with Sydney Sweeney and Jessica Alba with no restrictions! He's so freaking good and I still cannot believe he's on our team!

Mikal is also writing his own story. Another 4th quarter where he decides to channel his inner MJ and go on a middy barrage! 10 huge points in that fourth quarter! So happy for this guy. He doesn't look the part of play the style of game that reflects what we normally like in a player but you have to give him credit cause he's stepped up in these playoffs. But he's got to stop sagging so deep and leaving White open for those threes! This is not the team where you send help!

Kudos to KAT too for that gutsy game! Broken finger and all and he battled with 23 and had that nice block. I loved how he rebounded the ball too. He was extra bouncy and held his own against Tatum on some of those Iso's. Great bounce back game from OG too. I got scared when he went to the locker room with the hammy but thankfully he came back and he seemed fine. He hit some huge shots in the fourth and had that pivotal steal and dunk where Tatum got hurt.

Hats off to the bench! Mitch was a monster! 5 offensive rebounds and was just everywhere on defense in that fourth quarter! Great coached game by Thibs masterfully subbing Mitch out before Mazulla can start the lame hack-a-Mitch.

Too bad for Tatum. We all well know what this feels like having injuries at the worst possible time. Went through it with Ewing in 1999. Shit happens! I just hope the media doesn't discredit this gutsy Knicks win cause the game was decided by the time Tatum got hurt but if they want to keep doubting us, go a-****ing-head! We are one win away from the ECF! But the series is not over! Even with Tatum out, ending the Celtics season is going to be extremely hard! Thankfully we get 3 cracks at it!

Nalod a bit under the weather these days and found the first half intolerable in real time. I put on another program then came back to it the game via DVR.

Knicks are for sure defeating the odds. I suppose Silver is a part of this too?
Or the fact teams that win chips in some time don't advance to conf. finals!

Tatum was absolutely killing it. I was going to write Boston should get Flag and perhaps trade Tatum as he could command both Flag and other assets. The looked like a Torn achilles. Players are pretty good about pain but that dude looked in bad shape and despondent.

That was a total prize fight, back and forth in the second half....first Tatum and Brunson just making shots on both ends and then Tatum and Bridges trading blows. He summoned up a game for the ages - we were defending him perfectly and he was just making shots. We finally got a couple of stops and him and we didn't stop making our shots. I think I read that we had an offensive rating of like 150+ in the 2nd half of the game, and we shot over 60% in the 2nd half? Just one of the most amazing halves of basketball we have seen from this team in a huge moment.

fishmike wrote:

VDesai wrote:I got taken to the game as a client yesterday. My sales coverage is a huge Boston fan and was more or less slandering Tatum the whole game, while I was watching Tatum in complete awe of that shotmaking. Totally didn't understand his view - he and apparently a lot of Boston fans think that Tatum makes a lot of lucky shots - I said you can turn it around and say Tatum is probably the best difficult shot maker in the league, especially when he gets going. Anyway same guy thinks Brunson is a flopper so to each his own.

That was a total prize fight, back and forth in the second half....first Tatum and Brunson just making shots on both ends and then Tatum and Bridges trading blows. He summoned up a game for the ages - we were defending him perfectly and he was just making shots. We finally got a couple of stops and him and we didn't stop making our shots. I think I read that we had an offensive rating of like 150+ in the 2nd half of the game, and we shot over 60% in the 2nd half? Just one of the most amazing halves of basketball we have seen from this team in a huge moment.

to beat Boston THAT way was really special. Outdueling their best player and hitting them with what we do best... Brunson burner and WE CLOSE.

Wow have the Knicks becomes the best closing team?

I think so. Brunson is a killer and just knows when it's time to give his team a cushion late in the game. He delivers damn near 100% of the time. And our defensive closing unit with Deuce and Mitch is as good as any. I am feeling we have the horses to close out any close game now, as long as we have the appropriate timeouts we have the guy who will give us a lead and the defensive unit that will get us a stop.

DLeethal wrote:

fishmike wrote:

VDesai wrote:I got taken to the game as a client yesterday. My sales coverage is a huge Boston fan and was more or less slandering Tatum the whole game, while I was watching Tatum in complete awe of that shotmaking. Totally didn't understand his view - he and apparently a lot of Boston fans think that Tatum makes a lot of lucky shots - I said you can turn it around and say Tatum is probably the best difficult shot maker in the league, especially when he gets going. Anyway same guy thinks Brunson is a flopper so to each his own.

That was a total prize fight, back and forth in the second half....first Tatum and Brunson just making shots on both ends and then Tatum and Bridges trading blows. He summoned up a game for the ages - we were defending him perfectly and he was just making shots. We finally got a couple of stops and him and we didn't stop making our shots. I think I read that we had an offensive rating of like 150+ in the 2nd half of the game, and we shot over 60% in the 2nd half? Just one of the most amazing halves of basketball we have seen from this team in a huge moment.

to beat Boston THAT way was really special. Outdueling their best player and hitting them with what we do best... Brunson burner and WE CLOSE.

Wow have the Knicks becomes the best closing team?

I think so. Brunson is a killer and just knows when it's time to give his team a cushion late in the game. He delivers damn near 100% of the time. And our defensive closing unit with Deuce and Mitch is as good as any. I am feeling we have the horses to close out any close game now, as long as we have the appropriate timeouts we have the guy who will give us a lead and the defensive unit that will get us a stop.

OG is almost as good a defensive closer as Brunson is an offensive closer. I think that's an underrated aspect of us winning close games down the stretch. OG gets stops/creates turnovers. Now Mikal has been joining on that on both ends!

martin wrote:I’ll trust Fred on this

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With Bridges making these easy mid range 2s we are a nightmare team to close against.

We are literally built to close games.