Pacers vs. Knicks: Epic Showdown in Eastern Finals

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00:00a lot of old rivalry playoff history between indiana and new york fonseca and some recent

00:06of course in the second round last year it was the pacers and the knicks doing battle

00:11indiana winning in a seventh game inside madison square garden how tightly contested

00:17will the eastern conference finals be between the knicks and the pacers this time around

00:21i have a lot of matchup questions like with carl anthony towns versus miles turner that's going to

00:29be fascinating to me how each one is defended which team is daring the other one to shoot

00:35miles turner i think could be very very problematic in the series for the knicks if he's just hitting

00:40threes because chris as porzingis wasn't able to stretch carl anthony towns out 27 28 feet out

00:46and miles turner could do that because porzingis wasn't healthy and we saw what happens when

00:52porzingis is able to do that when he's healthy it really bends that knicks defense and that's

00:56something that you know indiana is going to need to do pascal siakam is going to be guarded by og an

01:00anubi good luck to both parties because it's going to be very very physical um don't know how that's

01:05going to go jalen brunson he can get his against andrew nemhard we'll see if the pacers go with him

01:10or aaron neesmith and even at times ben matherin just because he has length and has improved

01:15defensively i think carl i was going to be very creative in the series i think tom thibodeau deserves

01:20credit for being malleable a little more malleable last series but ultimately like i have a pacers to

01:27win the eastern conference finals future so what i might do is hedge with knicks in seven because i

01:33do think this series goes seven um but i really don't care about home court in this series i think

01:38the knicks are deservedly favored but i like the price is close because the pacers deserve a lot of

01:43respect the biggest difference between the pacers this year and last year is last year they couldn't

01:47defend this year they could their defense was actually in the top 13 in the nba around where

01:52the knicks were actually and better in the last couple months of the regular season where they

01:57established they're one of the best teams in the nba so i am not sleeping on the pacers at all