‘THE KNICKS TOOK ADVANTAGE!’ – Legler on Knicks CAPITALIZING on 76ers FLAWS in Game 2 | First Take
On First Take, Stephen A. Smith, Shannon Sharpe and Tim Legler join Molly Qerim to react to the New York Knicks 104-101 Game 2 playoff victory over the Philadelphia 76ers.
0:00 Did the Knicks win or did the 76ers lose?
4:30 Reaction to big plays
6:45 Shannon chimes in!
8:30 Stephen A. shares the stats
10:00 What could Joel Embiid do at full health?
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49 Comments
Legler with the nuanced measured takes as usual. Him and Lowe really are the best on there by a mile
Wasn’t a foul he flopped 🤣 edit: Philly gonna run Embiid into the ground. He’s beyond hurt.
Someone get Nick Nurse a tissue 🤧 “The refs ignored me.” 🧀🥩
If the Knicks had Randle, Brunson's job becomes way easier. A fully healthy knicks team smokes a fully healthy sixers team
You know if it was the other way around and it was Brunson getting fouled like that at the end and it was the Knicks coach trying to call timeout and was being ignored the Knicks fans would be rioting right now. But it just reminds me that Knicks fans are just the Cowboys fans of the NBA 😂😂haven't won anything in decades and expect everything. And the analysts are so far up their butts making excuses but watch when they lose how the dialog will be they need to make wholesale changes,fire coaches and trade players like they drone on and on about after every season 😂
Why is no one talking about removing embiid from the Olympic roster???
Embiid – that poor man is cursed.
By the time Nurse looked away and called timeout, the ball was no longer in Maxey’s possession
Why isn’t the last 2 min report out yet on the 2 games last night?
SOMEBODY TELL STEPHEN A UNLESS HE CAN ADDRESS THE INITIAL NO CALL WHEN MAXEY PUSHED HART TO GET FREE, I DONT WANT TO HERE ANYTHING.
No foul.
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Stephen A! Im surprised bro. Evidence bro. Evidence bro.
Robbed lol
Maxey was flopping like a fish
Joel is soft bra…what body language is that
Stephan A, even though he attended the game, is NOT a true Knicks fan. Hes a homer for his ego
Lets go Legs!
Legler killing it
Sweet y’all wanna talk about injuries? So let’s take a healthy Joel embid what would he do?
Does that mean we have a healthy Julius Randal to? Bc if so then this series is a blow out both games so far. Stop withy eh injury and if he wasn’t injuried, it’d be wrap for the Knicks, I don’t think we would be having this convo if Randal plays this series. Enough withy eh injury bug. Bc we dealing with a MAJOR one as well
Stephen a WRONG
The 76ers lost the game
Stephen A – thank you man.
Fun Fact: The Sixers are paying Tobias Harris $39 Million this year 💩
Word is sas left before the game was over
Shannon sharpe – thank you for trying
Back 30 years ago when Charles Smith was slapped the 💩 out of by Michael Jordan, Horace Grant, & Pippen.. Refs didn't call 💩
Im a knicks fan 40 years …. Steven a is fake af
Stephen is a hater. He’s mad that he didn’t get it right in the beginning of the year about these Knicks . He was talking smack about them.
He wants to act like Philly got robbed he didn’t see the DiVincenzo overturn call, which was obviously a foul he didn’t seem Josh Hart get pushed by Maxi, so theres missed calls such a hater
You sound stupid Stephen A. The Knicks took it from the Sixers because they had more heart, hustle, and grit in those last 47 seconds. The Knicks showed up when it mattered most. Lowry blew the inbounds. Maxey never secured the loose ball so Hart ripped it out of his hands. I-Hart flew in and took the rebound with all red jerseys under the rim. Knicks definitely deserved that win! Stephen A. = FAKE A$$ Knicks Fan FOH
Sixers didnt have a timout i believe so why is he calling that out
SAS wrong again! Maxey pushed off Hart. And Maxey was NOT fouled… there’s video out there showing no foul
Stephen A – you're harping on the Knicks fouling Maxey on that inbounds. Meanwhile, Maxey clearly two hand shoved Hart to clear space to get the pass and Lowry still botched it. Stop with the Sixers got robbed BS. Knicks took it! FAKE A$$ Knicks fan.
We don't like you Stephen A. We didn't want you in the garden and now we really dont 🤣
Stephen A you are a bad luck to the Knicks. Every time you go to MSG we lose or we struggle to win a game.
Stephen A is a bipolar back stabbing knicks fan.
Im more satisfied by josh hart getting the steal in divencio hitting the game winner y'all talk about y'all don't want the ref determining the game but yet here we are expecting the the ref to do that I guess only for certain players good job refs y'all been great all playoffs
so Maxey pushing Josh Hart to get open is not a foul? Stop with the excuses. Steven A is an embarrassment.
Maxey pushed off on the inbounds. So they could’ve called that too
Knicks without Randle no excuses
Philly with embid excuses blah blah
Dante got hit with 2 minutes left no one say anything
1:56 I don't have a court side seat like Stephen A, but from the video replay, I really can't see significant contact with Maxey. Please watch the video frame by frame before calling it a foul.
Oh whatever dude, look at all the other stuff going on around the same time. The timeout stuff has been debunked entirely so Nurse has no place to complain about that, and Steven A although right next to him did not see Nurse actually NOT call a timeout during his first attempt. Nurse went to call a timeout and retracted it. He did not put his hands together but instead did a sort of 90% timeout gesture. By the time he called timeout again the sixers did not have possession of the ball. Also, maxey absolutely tried to flop and there was in fact no foul on the Knicks. There is a courtside view going around that’s under the basket that shows clear as day that there was no foul whatsoever on the Knicks. And to top this all off, it’s the playoffs! Refs have traditionally let teams play much more aggressive in the playoffs. How many games have been robbed from the Knicks this year because refs fail to call fouls for Brunson? How many times have you seen Brunson run up to the basket and you see his head get knocked back without anything getting called? Maybe this BS from Steven A is just to be entertaining and get more clicks, but it’s obvious he wasn’t paying attention while courtside.
Embiid was getting calls the whole game that no Knick was getting (not saying he's not a great player, just that he gets a lot of touch foul calls). Maxey shoved Hart out of the way with two extended arms to get open. The refs haven't been calling anything since the all star break. Its the way it is. The replay (which is oddly edited here to create controversy) shows Nurse didn't try to call timeout until after Maxey lost control of the ball. And, health is part of the game. The Knicks are without Randle entirely, but we're all focused on Embiid. Sucks he got hurt, but I don't see why that's the only focus. The Knicks have been down all year, including now, with injuries. No crying from NY. Stephen A is a buffoon.
What actually happened and Sixers fans don't want to admit is Maxey opposite of clutch 2 dumb plays he couldn't hold on to the ball on the ground instead tried to do some roll pass that hart immediately grabbed lol hold the ball knicks have to foul 1 sec later game pretty much over… then he had a chance to lay it up and lost.. again.. when it mattered most..
They shouldve called when tyrese pushed josh hart from behind seconds before that. or when theyu robbed Divincenzo when lowry slapped him in the shoulder. or they shouldve called it when Hartenstien Got the rebound over 3 people and they beat him to the floor…
KNICKS IN 5
STOP CRYING
SAS with Worst Take. Lucky he had Legler on with a legit take.
Legs was all facts. SAS was all fakes. And Sharpes was all “what if’s”.
Iv never in my life heard a knicks fans defend or say something nice about SAS 30 years in NYC.. does that mean something?
You know Embiid was playing on one leg. He's like Humpty Dumpty, he easily breaks and shatters. I have the Knicks winning in 6 over the Sixers like I said.
He was not hacked. He lost the ball it was hard to tell he had possession of the ball
James Dolan needs to ban SAS from coming to MSG after this take.