Knicks Aim for Playoff Victory Against Pistons at MSG

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00:00the New York Knicks back inside Madison Square Garden looking to win the opening round playoff

00:04series for a third consecutive season five and a half point favorite tonight against the Pistons

00:10Detroit DRS has led in the fourth quarter in each of our two games so far inside the Mecca

00:17can they get it done again tonight to at least make this game close and maybe stave off elimination

00:22it's again we're talking about the mental psyche of teams like the Miami Heat were obviously checked

00:28out by the time that game started in game number four they got blasted right off the court also we

00:32just talked about the Bucs and the Pacers series we understand the Pacers have a pedigree of

00:36championships because why it's a championship because it's Giannis Antetokounmpo but also

00:40understand this human psychology as well Dan goes down early in that last basketball game

00:45tears his Achilles you know you're not going anywhere here so how much effort are you putting

00:49into a game in Indy when you know our season's going to end whether it's this game or the next

00:52game it doesn't matter same thing you take a look at the Pistons they let one game go to get away

00:58already in the garden where they should have been up 2-0 going home and also understanding this

01:02they blew a fourth quarter lead in their last game but it doesn't help the fact that if the

01:06refs just make a simple call that everybody saw they win that game and it's 2-2 going back to the

01:10garden now again for the second time in this series you were waking up after game number one at the

01:15garden going like man we should be up a game not down a game they had a great performance in game

01:19number two now you're doing the same thing where you know it's going to be hard to win three games in a

01:23row against the New York Knicks and now you're saying to yourself all right now we're in the

01:27garden that crowd's going to be in a frenzy looking to close us out also we have to still

01:31get over the heartbreak of we should have won that basketball game and we got jobbed by the referees

01:35that's tough yeah you look at the line open up at six at the fan blue sports book now sits at five

01:39and a half coming back to their direction even though across the board about six out of every 10 tickets

01:44are coming in here on the New York Knicks I want to give the Pistons a fighting chance they fought hard

01:49this entire series but it's still a young team trying to learn its way in the playoffs after getting a

01:54couple gut punches already and responding I don't know if I have the comfort level to say

01:58they can respond once again tonight in this atmosphere