Knicks Win By 36 Points In Absolute Blowout Of 76ers In Philly | New York Knicks

Knicks Win By 36 Points In Absolute Blowout Of 76ers In Philly | New York Knicks

THE “KNICKS POSTGAME” SHOW IS PRESENTED BY TRI STATE AUDI. DEUCE McBRIDE 12 POINTS IN THE SECOND QUARTER. KNICKS GO ON AN 18-4 RUN BEFORE HALFTIME. JALEN BRUNSON FOR 3. HE HAD 17 OF THE 30 GAME IN THE SECOND QUARTER. AND THE KNICKS BLOW OUT THE BEST

TEAM IN THE EAST 128-92. IT IS A 36-POINT WIN. THE SIXERS PREVIOUS FIRST LOSS ALL YEAR WAS BY 13 POINTS. WOW! WOW, WOW, WOW. FROM OUR DELTA MSG STUDIOS. MONICA McNUT WILL JOIN US HERE SHORTLY. THREE GAMES IS A BIG TRADE. KNICKS BEAT THE BEST TEAM IN THE WEST.

NOW THEY BEAT PHILADELPHIA AFTER BEATING CHICAGO. IF THERE WAS ANY CONCERN ABOUT THE BENCH, AT LEAST FOR A NIGHT, NO MORE CONCERNS ABOUT THE BENCH. Kenny: 49-15 WAS THE BENCH SCORES IN THIS GUY. THIS WAS COMING OFF A WIN FROM CHICAGO. WE’RE GOING TO GET SCORING FROM. WHO IS GOING TO STEP UP.

CAN DEUCE McBRIDE GET IT DONE? SO MANY OF THOSE QUESTIONS WERE ANSWERED TONIGHT BY THOSE GUYS. IF YOU THROW IN JOSH HART, WHO DID EVERYTHING, WHICH IS WHAT HE DOES, THOSE THREE GUYS WERE COMBINED PLUS 103 IN THIS GAME. COMING OFF A GAME IN CHICAGO WHERE THEY WERE MINUS 33 AS A TRIO.

YOU HAVE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS. THEY DID IT TONIGHT. WELL, GUYS, I THINK THE TRADE IS WORKING VERY NICELY. IT’S UNBELIEVABLE HOW THIS TEAM HAS PLAYED AFTER MAKING THAT TRADE. IT IS NOT EASY TO DO TO JUST PICK UP AND HAVE THIS TYPE OF SUCCESS AFTER MAKING A PRETTY

BIG MOVE WHERE YOU LOSE TWO ROTATION PLAYERS, ADD OBVIOUSLY ONE BIG ROTATION PLAYER AND PRECIOUS ACHIUWA. BUT ALL THE OTHER GUYS STEPPED UP. THEY REALLY GALVANIZED BEHIND O.G. ANUNOBY AND PRECIOUS COMING TO THIS TEAM. IT SAYS A LOT ABOUT THE LOCKER ROOM, THE WAY THEY EMBRACED THESE GUYS, THE WAY THEY HAVE

GOTTEN THESE GUYS UP TO SPEED FAST. LET’S REPEAT WHAT YOU SAID. THE BIGGEST LOSS TO DATE OF THIS SEASON WAS 13 POINTS. THE KNICKS COMPLETELY POWER WASHED THEM OFF THE FLOOR. THEY JUST BLEW THEM OUT OF THE BUILDING. THAT WAS SOME EFFORT. THIS TEAM IS COMING TOGETHER REALLY, REALLY WELL.

AND OTHER GUYS ARE STEPPING UP REALLY WELL. JULIUS RANDLE SCORED ONLY 8 POINTS. AND THEY PUT UP 128. AND THE KEY, ALAN, THE FIRST HALF THE KNICKS GO 13 OF 21 FROM DOWNTOWN. THEIR BEST HALF SHOOTING THE BALL. IN FACT, ONE OFF THE FRANCHISE RECORD TIE. YEAH. THIS REMINDS PEOPLE THE KNICKS

WERE DOWN BY 10 POINTS EARLY ON. BUT THE SIXERS HAVE BEEN ON A GREAT ROLL. CHASING THE SCOREBOARD GOING UPHILL. AND DONTE DIVINCENZO, HE KNOCKS DOWN A COUPLE OF THREES. JALEN BRUNSON HAS BEEN VERY GOOD. HE HAD A HECK OF A GAME AND A HUGE SECOND QUARTER. HOW ABOUT DEUCE McBRIDE?

COMES INTO THE GAME, THEN MAKES ONE, THEN MAKES TWO. NOW YOUR TEAMMATES WANT TO FIND YOU WHEREVER THEY CAN FIND YOU AND THEY KEPT FEEDING HIM. AND HE MADE A DIFFERENCE. HOW ABOUT THIS ONE? HAND OFF THE SCREEN. WE MENTIONED ISAIAH HARTENSTEIN’S NAME. HE GIVES YOU THE SCREEN ASSIST THERE.

BUT THE THREE BALL FOR THE KNICKS, AGAIN, THEY HAVE BEEN REALLY GOOD. THE TOP TEN THREE-POINT PERCENTAGE TEAM. TONIGHT MAKING 18 OF 41 FROM DOWNTOWN. A BIG PART OF GETTING BACK TO THE GAME AFTER BEING DOWN 10 AND A BIG PART OF TAKING OVER THE GAME EVERY TIME THE SIXERS MADE A PUSH.

AND WHAT ABOUT THE DEFENSE? REMEMBER WHEN MITCHELL ROBINSON WENT DOWN? 146. IT WAS LIKE WHAT’S GOING ON WITH TOM THIBODEAU’S DEFENSE. AND ALL OF A SUDDEN, YOU MAKE THIS TRADE AND THE KNICKS ARE HOLDING TEAMS UNDER 100 AGAIN. ALAN, I LOVE WHEN THE KNICKS GET UNDER 100. THEIR DEFENSIVE RATING IS A LOT

WHERE THEY WANT IT TO BE. ISAIAH HARTENSTEIN, BOY, HAS HE STEPPED UP IN THE CENTER POSITION. MITCHELL ROBINSON WAS GREAT, BUT HE’S MAKING US REALLY MOVE ON FROM THAT TRAGIC INJURY AND JUST SAY ISAIAH HARTENSTEIN, YOU ARE OUR GUY, MAN IN THE MIDDLE, AND HE’S DOING AN OUTSTANDING JOB.

TIME TO BRING IN MONICA McNUT. MONICA, LET US NOT FORGET ABOUT THE FACT THAT QUENTIN GRIMES FOR THREE-QUARTERS HAD NOT SCORED. HE SCORED 18 POINTS IN THE FOURTH QUARTER FOR THE KNICKS. YES. AND HE TALKED ABOUT COMING IN AND BEING READY.

HE’S LIKE, I KNOW THAT I HAVE TO COME IN AND LOOK TO SCORE FOR MY TEAMMATES. MY TEAMMATES WERE LOOKING FOR ME. IN ADDITION TO THAT, I ASKED HIM ABOUT THIS TEAM’S DEFENSE TONIGHT. AND HE REITERATED HOW IMPORTANT IT WAS FOR THEM TO HAVE ONE ANOTHER’S BACK. AND IN PARTICULAR, HAVE ISAIAH

HARTENSTEIN’S BACK AS HE WAS THE PRIMARY DEFENDER ON JOEL EMBIID FOR MUCH OF THIS BALL GAME. MONICA, DIDN’T WE TALK ABOUT THAT IN THE BEGINNING OF THE GAME? HOW DO THEY STOP JOEL EMBIID? HE DID IT AGAIN, OF COURSE, BUT IT WASN’T AS IF THAT DOMINATED THE GAME.

IT WAS WHAT THE KNICKS WERE DOING AS A FIVE-MAN UNIT. SO IT WAS A 30-10 FOR EMBIID. BUT IT DIDN’T FEEL LIKE HE DOMINATED THE GAME. HE DIDN’T. THERE WAS A STRETCH IN THE THIRD QUARTER WHERE EVERY TIME THAT HE HAD OR WHEN HE WAS DOUBLE TEAMED HE EITHER TURNED THE BALL OVER

OR IT WAS AN EMPTY POSSESSION. THERE WAS A SIX POSSESSION RUN WHERE THE KNICKS MANAGED TO DOUBLE TEAM HIM. WE TALKED ABOUT IT AFTER THE CHICAGO GAME. THERE IS A REASON. TONIGHT I THINK YOU SAW HOW LETHAL THE KNICKS CAN BE WHEN THEY ARE STOUT DEFENSIVELY AND THEY LOOK TO SCORE IN TRANSITION.

33 POINTS IN TRANSITION, THAT’S A BIG DEAL, AND THOSE ARE EASY BASKETS. IT IS MOMENTUM BASKETS. IT IS HIGH ENERGY. NOT TO MENTION THE PRODUCTIVITY FROM YOUR BENCH THAT DROWNED OUT ANYTHING THE SIXERS BENCH HAD TO OFFER. MONICA, HELP ME WRAP MY HEAD AROUND HOW THIS IS HAPPENING. YOU MAKE A MID-SEASON TRADE.

YOU GO 3-0. YOU EMPLOYEE OUT THE 76ERS, A GREAT HOME TEAM. YOU ABSOLUTELY SHUT UP THEIR CROWD. HOW IS THIS HAPPENING SO PERFECTLY FOR THE KNICKS? WALLY, OKAY, LET’S WORK THROUGH THIS TOGETHER. THE FIRST THING YOU HAVE TO ACKNOWLEDGE IS YOU HAVE JALEN BRUNSON WHO SHOULD BE AN ALL

STAR. HE WILL BE AN ALL STAR CALIBER GUY. TO YOU HAVE THE BIGGEST PIECE IN TERMS OF STABILIZING. HE’S EITHER LOOKING FOR JAYLEN OR SOMEBODY TO MOVE THE BALL UP THE FLOOR. YOU DON’T SEE HIM DOING TOO MUCH. HE’S CUTTING AND SCORING TO THE RIM.

WE TALKED ABOUT JULIUS. EVEN THOUGH HE DIDN’T HAVE A GREAT OFFENSIVE GAME TONIGHT, I THOUGHT HE MADE THE RIGHT PLAYS IN TERPS OF DEFENSE AND BEING INVOLVED IN THE PHYSICALITY. I THINK THE ROLES ARE MORE DEFINED NOW THAN THEY HAVE EVER BEEN WITH THIS KNICKS SQUAD. AND THAT HAS CREATED SO MUCH

CLARITY TOP TO BOTTOM. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? THAT DEFINITELY MAKES SENSE. NOW WE ARE WAITING FOR THE ROLES TO BE DEFINED OFF THE BENCH. FOR DEUCE McBRIDE, WHAT A GAME FOR HIM. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO FOR SOMEBODY TO BACK UP JALEN BRUNSON BECAUSE DEUCE CAME IN

AND SHOWED A LOT OF CONFIDENCE. THAT’S GOT TO BE IMPORTANT FOR HIM. I KNOW HE GOT HOT. I THINK HE ENDED UP — DID HE ENDED UP SCORING MORE POINTS THAN MINUTES. HE’S RIGHT THERE AND HAD 15 POINTS ON THE GAME. I ACTUALLY THOUGHT BECAUSE I

DON’T KNOW ABOUT Y’ALL BECAUSE THE FIRST 7:00 OF THE GAME, I WAS LIKE, THAT’S NOT LOOKING GOOD. HE OBVIOUSLY WAS AN OFFENSIVE OUTBURST OF SCORING. BUT I THINK IN THAT FIRST QUARTER, WHEN THE KNICKS MADE THE ADJUSTMENT AND IT WAS CLEAR THAT THEY WERE GOING TO PASS THE

BALL AND NOT GET LUGGED DOWN IN ISOLATION, THEY WEREN’T GOING TO ALLOW THE DEFENSE TO DICTATE WHAT THEY COULD DO AND THEY WERE GOING TO DO IT AND MAKE THEM PAY FOR GIVING UP THOSE OPTIONS, FOR ME IT WAS A MATURE OFFENSE FOR THE KNICKS.

I’M COMING TO TOWN TOMORROW. ARE YOU GOING TO MEET ME FOR LUNCH OR BLOW ME OFF BECAUSE OF PILATES. I KNOW YOU ARE ALWAYS IN THE GYM ON THE ROAD. MAKE SURE YOU GET A QUICK WORKOUT THERE. I KNOW NOT EVEN TO ASK. I HAVE LEARNED MY LESSON

ALREADY. GOT TO GET THE WORKOUTS IN. WE HAVE TO START THE YEAR FRESH. WE CAN’T HAVE ALL THIS IN JANUARY. A LOT OF CANADY OUT HERE,

The Knicks had a season high lead of 39 points during the 4th and would close with a massive 36 point win over the 3rd best team in the East. Miles McBride had a strong first half and Quentin Grimes had a 19 point 4th quarter to extend the Knicks’ dominance. The Knicks are 3-0 since the trade that landed OG Anunoby in NYC.

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Knicks Win By 36 Points In Absolute Blowout of 76ers In Philly | New York Knicks