Knicks Fight Back To Get Within 1 But Unable To Complete Comeback In Dalls | New York Knicks

Knicks Fight Back To Get Within 1 But Unable To Complete Comeback In Dalls | New York Knicks

TONIGHT’S POST GAME PRESENTED BY TRI STATE AUDI. DOWN 19 WITH 7:19 TO GO. DIVINCENZO PULLS THE KNICKS WITHIN ONE. CLINGING TO A ONE-POINT LEAD, DALLAS GET S A THREE FROM JOSH GREEN. THE FKNICKS ALLOWED THREE OFFENSIVE REBOUNDS. AND DALLAS HANGS ON TO WIN. WALLY WILL JOIN US IN A COUPLE

MINUTES FROM DALLAS. THE KNICKS FIVE-GAME WINNING STREAK IS OVER. THEY NEVER RECOVERED AFTER THAT FIRST QUARTER THAT SAW THEM GIVE UP P34 POINTS, BUT OH, SO CHOSE. THEY JUST COULDN’T GET A DEFENSIVE REBOUND BEFORE GREEN’S KEY THREE. WE ALWAYS TALK ABOUT HOW THE STOP ISN’T UNTIL YOU GET THE DEFENSIVE REBOUND.

THAT’S THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECT OF GETTING THE STOP. AND THE KNICKS FINALLY WERE GETTING STOPS IN THAT FOURTH QUARTER, BUT THAT’S ONE OF THOSE PLAYS WHERE YOU JUST LOOK AT IT, AND YOU HAVE TO CREDIT FIRST OF ALL THE DALLAS MAVERICKS AND HOW HARD THEY PLAYED. THIS NOT A GOOD REBOUNDING TEAM.

THIS IS NOT A GOOD REBOUNDING TEAM. THEY HAD TO HUSTLE. THEY HAD TO DO ALL THE THINGS YOU SAW IN THIS GAME TO WIN THIS GAME. YOU GIVE THEM CREDIT FOR THAT KEEPING IT ALIVE TO GET ONE MORE SHOT. THEY KNEW IF THE KNICKS GOT THE

BALL DOWN ONE THEY WERE WINNING THAT GAME. FIRST QUARTER’S WHERE THIS GAME WAS PROBABLY LOST, BUT THEY STILL, TYPICAL KNICKS, KEPT FIGHTING AND HAD A CHANCE TO WIN. THEY WERE STILL ABLE TO PUT UP 128 POINTS. KNICKS NEVER LED. THEY GOT WITHIN SIX A COUPLE TIMES IN THE THIRD QUARTER AND

WITHIN ONE IN THE FINAL MINUTE OF THE GAME. OH, SO CLOSE, BILL PETO, OH, SO CLOSE. TODAY’S NBA, WE SEE THAT TOO MUCH. JULIUS RANDLE WHO WAS GETTING IT DONE IN THE PAINT FOR MOST OF THIS GAME, HE DRIVES HARD TO THE PAINT. JALEN BRUNSON, IT WAS A STRUG. ISAIAH HARTENSTEIN, 15 REBOUNDS,

AND THE KNICKS ARE DOWN TEN. THEN YOU SEE BRUNSON RATTLE IN A NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN THE KNICKS ARE DOWN BY FOUR. THREE. 121-114. KEEP GETTING STOPS, KICKS IT OUT. ONE GUY WHO’S KNOCKING DOWN THREES, DONTE DEVIN CHIN SAY. BDEIVINCENZO. HE KNOCKS THAT ONE, MADE IT A

FOUR-POINT GAME, THAN WAS THE GAME RIGHT THERE, 25 SECONDS TO GO. THEY NEEDED ONE STOP. WE DIDN’T SHOW THE WHOLE SEQUENCE, BUT IT WAS A GREEN MISS, A TAP OUT. GETS IT BACK, TAKES ANOTHER THREE, WHY? BECAUSE HE WANTED TO. MISSES THAT ONE, AND THEN ANOTHER TAP BACK, AND KYRIE GETS

IT. FEEDS GREEN, AND GREEN KNOCKS THAT SHOT DOWN TO REALLY PUT THE KNICKS AWAY. WHEN A STRUGGLE IT WAS AT THAT POINT. BUT THE KNICKS HAD TO CLIMB ALL THE WAY BACK. SUCH A BIG MOUNTAIN TO CLIMB, BECAUSE THEY HAD SUCH A SHOW START IN THE FIRST QUARTER. LET’S BRING IN WALLY, HE

HELPED CALL THE GAME ON THE RADIO. YOU MADE THE PREGAME. DON’T LET THEM GET OFF TO A GREAT START. AND DALLAS GOT OFF TO A GREAT START. 44 POINTS IN THAT FIRST QUARTER. KYRIE IRVING ABSOLUTELY ABUSED THE KNICKS. THAT GUY HAS SO MUCH GAME, AND

IT WAS ON DISPLAY ALL OVER THE FIELD HERE, DEFENDING HIS HOME COURT, WITHOUT LUKA DONCIC, WHAT A PERFORMANCE. TIM HARDAWAY JUNIOR, THE FORMER KNICKS KNOCKING THEM DOWN. AND IT WAS REALLY SURPRISING THAT THE KNICKS WERE OUTWORKED FOR MOST OF THIS GAME. OUTSTANDING EFFORT TO GET IT

BACK TO CLOSE AND HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO WIN IT AND STEAL IT IN THE FOURTH QUARTER. BUT OVERALL, THE AGGRESS, MORE AGGRESSIVE TEAM ALL NIGHT, WAS THE DALLAS MAVERICKS. THEY WERE THE TEAM THAT WERE HITTING FIRST. THEY WERE THE TEAM IN ATTACK MODE THE ENTIRE GAME.

AND I GIVE KYRIE IRVING A LOT OF CREDIT. BOUG BECAUSE HE PUT HIS TEAM ON HIS SHOULDERS AND CAME AWAY WITH A BIG-TIME PERFORMANCE AND BIG-TIME WIN FOR HIS MAVERICK SQUAD. YOU COULD SEE THE ENERGY. HE MADE IT A POINT THAT HE WAS

GOING TO BE IN ATTACK MODE. BUT I DO CREDIT JASON KIDD AS WELL. LIKE YOU SAID. HOW ABOUT JOSH GREEN, HOW READY HE WAS TO ABOUT UP AGAINST JALEN BRUNSON, LIKE LET’S NOT LET HIM HAVE A BIG REUNION GAME HERE. LET’S NOT HAVE HIM HAVE A REVENGE GAME.

LET’S SHUT HIM DOWN. YOU HAVE TO GIVE GREEN CREDIT AND EVERY LOOSE BALL, IT SEEMS LIKE THE MAVERICKS WERE THE FIRST ONES ON IT. DID YOU FEEL THAT IN THE BUILDING, THE ENERGY THAT THEY PLAYED WITH FROM THE VERY START OF THE GAME? I JUST FIT LIKE ELT LIKE THE

WERE A STEP SLOW. NORMAL REBOUNDS THEY WOULD GET WERE GETTING TIP OUT THEREOF HANDS. NORMAL PASSES FROM POINT ATH A TO POINT B, THE MAVERICKS WERE PUT M PUTTING IN THAT EXTRA EFFORT. IT WAS A CLINIC. IT LOOKED LIKE THE KNICKS TOOK A

LITTLE BIT OF TIME TO ADJUST, AS FAR AS THEIR GAME PLAN DEFENSIVELY WITHOUT LUKA DONCIC OUT THERE ON THE FLOOR OF THE ONCE THEY WITH ABLE TO GET A HANDLE ON HOW TO GET THE BALL OUT OF KYRIE IRVING’S HANDS, WHICH THEY DID PRETTY MUCH THE

WHOLE ENTIRE SECOND HALF AND FOURTH QUARTER, THEY WERE ABLE TO CHALLENGE THE DALLAS MAVERICKS TO TAKE SOME SHOTS THAT THEY WITH NOT COMFORTABLE TAKING. B BOY, WAS DALLAS QUICK TO THE BALL. THERE WERE CRAZY BOUNCES OFF THE SIDE OF THE BACKBOARD, TOP OF THE BACKBOARD, BOUNCING ALL OVER

THE JOINT. AND IT SEEMS LIKE THE MAVERICKS DID A GREAT JOB GETTING TO THAT PLAY FIRST, AND THAT WAS THE KEY SHOT THAT JOSH GREEN FLOCKED DOWNKNOCKED DOWN, AND THEY OBLITERATED THOSE STATS DEFENSIVELY, THEY’VE GOT TO GET BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD. > STATS.

THIS LEAGUE WILL HUMBLE YOU. HOW EVERYTHING LOOKED LIKE IT WAS CLICKING AND PERFECT. THAT FIRST QUARTER, YOU STARTED SAYING OH, NO, SOME OF THE WARTS ARE SHOWING AND HERE AND THERE, BUT DID THEY ADJUST? DID YOU SEE AN ADJUSTMENT DEFENSIVELY? BECAUSE THE KNICKS DID GET A OT BETTER. KYRIE DOES WHAT KYRIE DOES.

BUT THEY LOOK LIKE THEY FINALLY FIGURED SOMETHING OUT DEFENSIVELY AND KIND OF GOT BACK TO THINGS. HOW ELSE DO YOU GET IT DOWN TO A ONE-POINT LEAD AFTER BEING DOWN 20? IT WAS GREAT ADJUSTMENTS BY THE COACHING STAFF. AND I THINK THE COACHING STAFF

HAD TO ADJUST WITH A LOT OF THE GUYS OUT. THE NORMAL GAME PLAN, YOU HAD TO REALLY SEE A NEW TEAM THAT WAS GOING TO PLAY A DIFFERENT WAY, AND IT TOOK A SECOND FOR THE COACHING STAFF TO ADJUST. THEY MADE THE NECESSARY IN-GAME

ADJUSTMENTS TO GET THE KNICKS BACK INTO THIS BASKETBALL GAME, BUT THAT’S TOO MANY POINTS. THIS IS A GREAT OFFENSIVE TEAM. THEY SCORE 118, TOP FIVE IN THE NBA. BUT WITHOUT LUKA DONCIC YOU HAVE TO CONTROL THEM. AND THE KNICKS WAITED A LITTLE BIT TOO LONG TO SLOW THEM DOWN

OFFENSIVELY IN THAT SECOND HALF. WALLY, THANK YOU, AS ALWAYS. WE’LL TALK TO YOU SATURDAY NIGHT WITH THE KNICKS AT MEMPHIS. YOU GOT IT, BOYS. 34 POINTS, A SEASON HIGH. THEY MORE THAN MADE UP FOR THE ABSENCE OF LUKA DONCIC. BUT IRVING WITH THE 44 POINTS. 0 OF

0 F /x■( 20 OF THOSE 44 CAME IN THIRD QUARTER. CAN THE KNICKS CUT INTO WHAT WAS AN IS 19-POINT LEAD? THEY WERE ABLE TO GET IT TO TEN, AND THEN KYRIE IRVING SCORED TEN CONSECUTIVE POINTS, I’M SORRY, ACTUALLY, IT WAS CUT TO SIX, AND

KYRIE IRVING SCORED TEN CONSECUTIVE POINTS ON HIS OWN AS IF TO SAY, I’M GOING TO STOP THIS MYSELF, AND HE WAS ABLE TO DO THAT, SO THE KNICKS WEREN’T ABLE TO CLOSE THAT IN THE THIRD QUARTER AND ENDED UP BEING DOWN BY 15.

THEY HAD IT TO 6. THEN IT LOOKED LIKE THIS IS THE KNICKS WE’RE USED TO SEEING, AND KYRIE TAKES OVER. YOU CAN’T PLAY HIM STRAIGHT UP. WHAT THEY STARTED TO DO IN THE FOURTH QUARTER WAS TRAP, GET THE BALL OUT OF HIS HANDS.

LET SOMEONE ELSE BEAT YOU. THEY WERE PLAYING HIM A LOT STRUP, A STRAIGHT UP. AND WHEN YOU ARE DOING THAT, YOU’RE PLAYING HIS GAME. HE’S SO CRAFTY. WHEN HE GETS INTO RHYTHM, HE AS ALMOST VIRTUALLY UNSTOPPABLE. WHEN YOU SHE S YOU SI YOU SEE THAT HAPPENING, YOU GOT TO STOP HIM.

JULIUS RANDLE, 32. 19 IN THE THIRD QUARTER AND THE HOMECOMING FOR JALEN BRUNSON OR ACTUALLY FIRST GAME IN DALLAS AGAINST A TEAM HE USED TO PLAY FOR, HE MISSED LAST YEAR BECAUSE OF AN INJURY, BUT ONLY WOULD OF SIXTWO OF

The Knicks started slow and were down as many as 19 points in the first 3 quarters but, in the final 2 minutes was able to make it a 1 point game. Jalen Brunson playing his first game back in Dallas had 30 and Julius Randle had 32 points but still, The Knicks fell short of the comeback losing 124-128. The Knicks winning streak ends at 5 and they look to bounce back in Memphis on Saturday.

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