00:00What is the vibe in New York City after the Knicks collapsed last night?
00:03Yeah, it was a collapse.
00:06You know, it's funny.
00:07I actually want to get into that part about whether it's exactly a collapse or not.
00:11To me, it's an interesting conversation.
00:13But the mood is not good, I'd say.
00:19I'd say the mood is morose.
00:22I'm about to head into the radio station, so I'll see.
00:25But based on what it felt like watching it, guys, it's not great.
00:30It's not great.
00:31That is a frustrating, very frustrating loss.
00:35I can point out good things to take away from it, namely the fact that Indiana literally had to have a perfect start and a perfect finish to steal that game from you.
00:46But can you recover from just how low you are after a loss like that?
00:51That's going to be the hardest thing facing the Knicks.
00:53I think the one thing I noticed, Peter, I looked at five minutes, 15 seconds in the game, and I saw some of the dumbest shots taken and defense played.
01:04And when you don't, and you take dumb shots, they were shooting with 17, 18 seconds on the clock.
01:10Instead of, take that thing down some more.
01:13And they will shoot and hit, and the Pacers scored seven seconds later.
01:19Then they come right back, they do the exact same thing.
01:22They miss a shot, or they'll get two points.
01:24Pacers got three.
01:25At that point, I started to get worried.
01:27And with five minutes and something in the game, I got worried.
01:30Yeah, you're trading two for three.
01:33Yeah.
01:33And now Neesmith is playing perfect basketball.
01:36And you're right, you're rushing shots.
01:38And then there were a couple of really bad defensive lapses.
01:40And then, of course, you know, it's so trite and it's so obvious.
01:44But, like, two of your best players miss free throws in the last minute.
01:48Yep.
01:49And if Cat makes his free throw, they're probably good.
01:52And then if OG makes his free throw, they're still probably good.
01:55They both missed one.
01:57And then, you know, listen, how many times?
02:02Tyrese Halliburton's an incredible player.
02:04But the amount of times out of ten that he would have made that shot,
02:08the running step back off the back of the iron, it was the perfect storm.
02:16But the one thing I was going to ask you about is, is it completely a collapse?
02:21Like, did they fall apart at the end of the game?
02:23Or were they, like, outplayed by a team that hit everything?
02:28It didn't.
02:29Because, to me, it collapsed.
02:31I think of, like, one huge mistake after another, JP.
02:34It wasn't that.
02:36Do you know what I'm saying?
02:36But you know what?
02:37You got to look at it, though.
02:39When Brusson threw the ball in and he slipped, almost lost the ball there.
02:47The second time he jumped in there and just throws the ball back in,
02:49don't know where it's going.
02:50And they did a lot of things that were, like, elementary late in that game.
02:54That, you know, so that is a good point.
02:56They survived a couple of the moments that would have been the most sort of,
03:01like, symptomatically collapse-like.
03:03They ended up surviving those moments.
03:06But you're right.
03:07Those little things did happen.
03:08And what I found odd, I felt like Brunson seemed really winded at the end of
03:18regulation and overtime.
03:19I thought a lot of them looked that way.
03:21Yeah, he did.
03:22He did.
03:22He looked like he couldn't really move.
03:24That was Brunson's most rested game of the postseason.
