Credit where it’s due: The Cavs are a very good team, this series was always going to be close, and on Tuesday, Cleveland played like a desperate team. They brought more energy than the Knicks did.
But if you break down the Knicks turnovers (or find [someone on Twitter who did](https://twitter.com/JakeBrownNBA/status/1648769683930198017?s=20)), it becomes clear that close to half of them were the result of regular stupid mistakes, rather than some kind of tactical innovation from Cleveland. Add in the fact that we couldn’t hit a three to save our lives, and you get the result we got.
If the Knicks just stay disciplined and steady, I like our chances. If IQ and/or RJ remembers how to score, then I like them even better.
by daddyisatworkrn
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Enough already. Cavs came out and outplayed us, we’re more physical, forced turnovers. On to the next. We got home court going back to MSG against a very good team. Let’s move on and hope our guys can match the physicality and produce some more offense.
Yea man I don’t see what you’re seeing. Those turnovers are a direct result of the cavs having great individual defenders and playing all around great team defense.
The Cavs trapped Brunson more and started the second half with Lavert and attacked Brunson Id say the Cavs defintely adjusted and beat us outside than just us turning over the ball
We turned the ball over because they were playing awesome defense. They’re a good team. We can win the series but it’ll come down to coaching adjustments and whether our role players can make shots.
i would say most of the turnovers were a result of us trying to “freestyle” outside of our normal offense, because everything we were trying with our normal offense was getting shut down. so therefore the cavs absolutely deserve the credit.
our guys were out there overthinking because they knew the normal go to actions were getting shut down and leading to bad shots late in the shot clock. we tried to improvise and guys can’t read each others minds obviously – leading to many mistakes passing. I also think some turnovers were from us being tentative and not believing in the actions, but that again is credit to the cavs.
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there were a handful of bad ones that were just bone headed and cavs don’t deserve credit for really, but overall the cavs defense locked us up and we had no answers.
i remember early in the game people criticizing brunson for trying to do too much, but honestly him trying to do too much got us our best shots of the game for the most part – they just didn’t go in as often as they normally do.
Yeah but why were the turnovers occurring? Because of the physicality, making guys out of rhythm, making it hard to get to their spots. You assume that they’ll have the same intensity for the rest of the series
One of our turnovers was when mark Sanchez passed the ball to the back of JHarts head. I mean grimes’ pass..
I’m worried Thibs is going to be outcoached again in the playoffs. They almost blew game 1 with Randle making bad decision after bad decision and Thibs unwilling to go back to Obi. Thibs needs to earn his $$ now!
I disagree, I think the Knicks lost the game and the cavs won the game. Knicks 100% lost, Cavs 100% won. There are no degrees of winning and losing.
Well of course. But let’s not act like the refs weren’t absolute garbage as well.
Russ, did you guys lose this game or did the Jazz win this one?
This is a reductive and overly simplistic take. 17 is obviously too many turnovers, but 14 (13?) of those occurred in the first half. We protected the ball better in the back 24 and still couldn’t deliver.