Knicks Clinch Series Over Pistons Behind Brunson's Heroics

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00:00Let's get into it last night.

00:01The New York Knicks, blue game five, on the road to game number six,

00:04a spirited atmosphere in Detroit.

00:06The Knicks open up exactly the way you want.

00:1037-23, try to quiet that crowd, and it got erased in the second period.

00:15And away we went into the second half, which led us to the final period.

00:19You needed a comeback.

00:20You needed a big shot.

00:22And Jalen Brunson gave it to you, Coach.

00:25Hey, listen.

00:26First of all, shout out to Detroit Pistons.

00:27What a job by J.B. Bickerson with that team.

00:31I mean, Monty Williams, you'll never get a head-of-coaching job ever again in your life.

00:35But when you really look at it, that second quarter by Malik Beasley particularly,

00:40basically got them completely back in the game.

00:43Third quarter, Knicks come and punch again.

00:45And then here comes Detroit, obviously, in the fourth quarter.

00:50112-105.

00:51And, you know, Jalen Brunson, you know, big body Brunson,

00:57you know, I'm going to start calling him Captain Clutch because his performance

01:01sound is stretched 112-105 to kind of get, most importantly, that three-point play on

01:07Schroeder to get the lead to four, a couple more shots, and then one-up play, as much

01:12as we've knocked tips, and rightfully so.

01:15Now, the play that he ran, end of game, which if anybody knows, they run what's called a

01:21ghost screen, which is you kind of pretend you're setting a screen and you clear out.

01:25What it does is it throws off the defender's timing because Detroit was probably going to

01:29be ready to switch.

01:31Well, by Bridges being the brush, the ghost screener, it made like a sore top to kind of

01:37freeze up a little bit because they thought it was a switch.

01:39So, as he goes out, now you see Brunson go to his left, now you, as a lefty, a sore

01:46has got to cut him off.

01:48Great snatch back, get to the top of the key, knock down three, drive home safely.

01:55Got it.

01:56I mean, two double-digit leads they threw up on there, Coach.

02:00That is the most infuriating Knicks team to watch when it all comes down to it, but that's

02:06where experience kicked in, right?

02:08Jalen is a guy who can make those shots when a game matters, and Detroit just doesn't have

02:14that at this point.

02:16But to me, Coach, the problem with the Knicks moving forward is, A, you should be hanging

02:21a Celtics jersey up behind you instead of that Knicks one, but B, it's just too reliant

02:28on Brunson, is it not, Coach?

02:30Somebody else has got to step up here if they're going to take down the Celtics.

02:34It's honestly, it's going to have to be Cat.

02:39And Cat was, let's be honest, this is the, they lost, the Knicks won this game, series

02:45four games to two, and in two games they lost, he was awful, and he was terrible last night,

02:52and he got bailed out by a 40-piece.

02:54You're not going to be able to do that versus Boston.

02:56Let's just be, like, honest about this here.

02:58Cat has to be the Cat they need, and you still got to get OG and Bridges to play somewhat

03:06well, and you have to have the bench.

03:10See where I'm going with this, folks?

03:11Boston has really played really extremely well.

03:14They're undefeated against the Knicks.

03:16Let's be honest, except for the last game, none of the games were close.

03:19It's important for the Knicks to be competitive, and let's be honest, if the Knicks have any,

03:24any sniff in the series, they got to steal one of the first two in Boston, which at times,

03:30Boston can cough up games because of their three-point shooting.

03:34The problem is, do the Knicks have enough scoring consistently on the other side to score?

03:40Because you obviously know a guy like Drew Holloway, Derek White, they're going to put him

03:46on Brunson and kind of wear him out.

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