Knicks Rally in Playoff: A Dramatic Overtime Victory

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00:00Here he is talking about them rallying, getting it done in overtime.

00:04Very proud.

00:05Yeah, you know, and it's been, this team has fought all year.

00:09You know, it's been a pretty good road team.

00:12We've had to endure some things with guys being out.

00:15And I think over time that helps you.

00:19You build up, you know, your mental toughness

00:21and understanding how important that is.

00:25And like I said, it's one game.

00:27There's a lot of, you know, emotional highs and lows in a playoff.

00:31But no matter what happens, you have to keep moving forward.

00:36Yeah, I have no idea what that meant.

00:39All I know is...

00:39Keep moving forward.

00:41Yeah, listen, I actually, look, I think the key,

00:44last year when they lost to the Pacers, right,

00:47I think that they had guys just break down.

00:50They had injuries and literally it cost them.

00:54They couldn't, they flat out couldn't play.

00:56And, you know, going into this series,

01:00you had Brunson with the, you know, bad right foot, ankle,

01:03whatever you want to call it.

01:04And then basically everybody else was relatively good to go.

01:09They need to stay healthy in this series against Boston.

01:14They can't afford to have any of these really five starters go down.

01:19And then you saw what happened last night when they got in foul trouble.

01:22I think that every game in this series, you're going to have foul trouble

01:26because I think the refs are calling it just kind of out of control.

01:31Like there were guys with three fouls last night.

01:34By the end of the first quarter, they just called everything.

01:37I tweeted out that Boston got a call every time they went down the floor.

01:41And they got more calls than the Knicks.

01:45Don't be fooled by the free throws and the foul amounts because at least 10 of those

01:50were on Robinson, right?

01:52Like they just kept tackling Mitchell Robinson.

01:55So I thought that somebody's got way more calls in that game last night.

01:59And they still lost.

02:01You know why?

02:02Because they shot like Shaq.

02:04That's why they lost.

02:06They blew it.

02:07And the Knicks took advantage of their broke-ass Jays,

02:11got the rebounds that they needed because they lost a lot of rebounds to Boston.

02:15I mean, how many second and third, fourth chances did they get, Mike,

02:20on rebounds where they scored off of misses?

02:24Think about it.

02:25If the Knicks get half of those rebounds, the Knicks win by 15.

02:30I mean, honestly, because they never hit a shot,

02:32but they kept getting three rebounds every time they missed.

02:36Every time, just getting smashed on the glass the entire night.

02:41But the Knicks were able to still find a way.

02:45A lot of that was Brunson.

02:46He had 29 points.

02:47OG had 29 points hard at 14 and 11.

02:50Brunson, third player in NBA playoff history with 75-plus points.

02:54In the fourth quarter of his first seven games in the playoffs,

02:57only Steph Curry and Kobe Bryant have accumulated that many.

03:02Think about that for a minute.

03:04You know what?

03:04He just won the clutch player of the year in the NBA because he shows up

03:10and goes off in money time.

03:13You can call it clutch, whatever.

03:14Money time.

03:16Fourth quarter is money time.

03:17That's win game mode.

03:20That's what it's all about.

03:23Here's Brunson, as always, very excited after a big win.

03:27We totally try to just keep believing and just keep fighting,

03:32sticking together, and keep chipping away.

03:34Now, when is it going to be a 20-point shot where you can just come back?

03:40We try to keep chipping away, possession by possession,

03:41and then just find a way to keep getting stops

03:45and making plays on an offensive one as well.

03:48He said at one point, I heard him in the presser say,

03:51there's no 20-point shot.

03:54Yep.

03:54So, you just got to keep making buckets.

03:57And they did it.

03:58And I got to tell you, it really was, I think,

04:05my favorite Nick win in 30 years.

04:08I've seen him win absolutely nothing, right?

04:14Like, I've been here 30 years.

04:16I have never seen him win anything that mattered.

04:19I mean, I've seen him beat the Celtics before

04:20when the Celtics didn't matter,

04:22when Melo was on that team, remember?

04:25And all I know is that this was the best win I've ever seen

04:29in my life as a Nick fan.

04:32Honestly, like, I was not a Nick fan in 70.

04:36You understand?

04:36I wasn't living in New York City in 1970.

04:41But what's weird is, when I was a kid,

04:44I was a huge, I loved the Yankees, right?

04:46I liked, I told you, I loved Mickey Rivers

04:49and Reggie Jackson and all of them.

04:53Nettles and, you know, Goose Gossage,

04:55everything about him I liked.

04:57George Steinbrenner, I was a fan of his

04:58when I was a little boy.

04:59I used to love watching the owner of the Yankees

05:02cussing out Billy Martin.

05:05And I thought, I was like, look at this guy.

05:07I was like seven.

05:09I'm like, look at this guy, giving this guy the business.

05:12I want to be around him.

05:14And then, so I always liked New York.

05:18I didn't like the Knicks in 1970.

05:21That's just all there is to it.

05:22I wasn't privy to that team.

05:25But this team I like a lot.

05:27And I've been watching them for a long time.

05:28And they suck.

05:29They never get it done.

05:30So that was the greatest win last night

05:32I think I've ever seen, Mike.

05:34I don't know if you could,

05:35I know you don't like them.

05:36But you got to admit, that was unbelievable.

05:39Let's pray.

05:39We'll see you next time.

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