Knicks Aim to Close Series at Home, Celtics Fight Back

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00:00Well, the Knicks are going to try to do something tonight that they have not done at home since 1999.

00:06That was in the Eastern Conference Finals Game 6.

00:09That would be close out a series at home at the Garden.

00:13The last five times they've had a chance to do this, they have lost.

00:18The Celtics on the other side, they have won five straight road games when facing elimination.

00:25So the Celtics have been very good with this the last couple years.

00:30In this spot, why don't we start from earlier today at the shoot-around at the Garden for the Celtics.

00:35Here's Peyton Pritchard.

00:37Obviously, Celtics down 3-2.

00:39They do not want to go home tonight.

00:41I get this Game 6, bring it back to Boston.

00:43That's the only thing that matters right now.

00:45Why do you guys thrive so much in these elimination games, especially on the road when in a hostile environment?

00:52Because we don't want our season to end.

00:54I think it's nothing worse than having to go home and sit at home and not play basketball right now.

01:00So we're going to do everything we can to keep that alive.

01:04You know, and the thing about him is he's such a great player and I hate his guts.

01:09Look, I think that that honestly, that's the thing tonight.

01:18You know this.

01:19I know this.

01:20This isn't hard to figure out.

01:22You can't have the Celtics do what they did in game number five, which was hit 22 threes and just go...

01:31Wide open.

01:32I don't care.

01:33I don't care what the Knicks do.

01:34The Knicks...

01:35They're not winning the game if the Celtics hit 22 threes again.

01:38There's just no shot that they're going to be able to hang around with them doing that.

01:42They have to be better defending the perimeter.

01:44Something that we know they're not great at anyway.

01:47But they've got to try to get back to a little bit of what they did in those first two games in Boston.

01:52I think it's bullshack that they don't guard the perimeter.

01:55I think it's absolute bullshack.

01:57I mean, can we get somebody up in somebody's grill?

02:03Can we get guys on the body and stop with this space?

02:09I mean, they are leaving these guys five feet wide open shots.

02:13It's like, it's the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen in my life.

02:19This guy, White, is shooting step-in threes.

02:22I play with this guy.

02:23He led the nation in scoring at Drew University.

02:28You heard me.

02:29Led the nation in scoring, this White boy.

02:32The sniper.

02:34And I see this guy walking into threes all the time.

02:37We're like, we bring the ball down the court and they kick it out to him and he steps into the three.

02:41That's what White does.

02:43That's what this team does.

02:47It's the most unbelievable thing how they don't guard him.

02:51It's like the kiss of death.

02:53It's you're asking to lose.

02:55These are professional sharpshooters.

02:59These guys are not in the NBA and with rings on their fingers because they suck at shooting threes.

03:06Particularly White.

03:07The one that insulted me the other night was the brown on the wing.

03:11He literally stopped, dribbled, spun the ball like he was at the free throw line.

03:16And then he shot the three all in that splash.

03:19And no one was in, like, anywhere within 15 feet of him.

03:25Like, what in the F are we doing here?

03:30Can we get bodies on these guys?

03:32Like, honestly, I'm going to have a stroke.

03:34Watching them shoot wide open threes is just killing me.

03:37I'm going to have another heart attack.

03:38Yeah, nobody wants to have you to have that.

03:43So, we're not going to go that far.

03:44I will tell you that the Knicks tonight, for the first time in this series, they're favored.

03:50Minus two and a half for the Knicks.

03:52Oh, no.

03:53At home, two eleven and a half is the total.

03:59Go ahead.

04:00I know you're not playing.

04:02If you're not, you can't pick the Celtics.

04:04I know.

04:04I can't worry about numbers at this point.

04:08I'm worried about my health.

04:10I'm on the Knicks.

04:11That's that.

04:12Game over.

04:13Lay it.

04:14That's it.

04:14I'm never, you'll never, you'll never see me bet on the Celtics.

04:18I don't even care if I lose money.

04:19That's how much I hate them.

04:21Like, I just don't even care.

04:22I will never bet on them.

04:24I'm mad at you for wearing a green shirt today.

04:26Like, I've already, that's already set me off.

04:28He's got, like, a green and green concoction going, green and black.

04:32Like, he's got the Celtics green and black, road, uniform.

04:36The day the guy showed up, my guy, Deb, showed up at the gym with his Celtic jersey on it.

04:41And then they said, listen, you're not playing here today with that on.

04:45And I was like, Carver Hawk shows up today in green and black.

04:48Like, what's happening here to me?

04:50Is this all part of a grand scheme of, like, some evil plot?

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