Thibs Calls Out Knicks' Turnovers and Defensive Lapses

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00:00What is Tibbs saying about the turnovers?

00:03Because that's what really did him in.

00:05Yeah, I mean, Tibbs obviously doesn't beat around the bush.

00:09You can talk about whatever you want from this game last night.

00:12The main thing is that they were just extremely sloppy with the basketball.

00:16Here's Tibbs.

00:17Tom, it seemed like you guys found something defensively in Game 3.

00:22Today it seemed like every time you guys made a run,

00:24you just couldn't get the stop.

00:25And I think, like you said, 43 in the first quarter.

00:27What did you see defensively that wasn't working?

00:29Well, we knew it was going to be a fast game.

00:33You know, so that was going to – the priority was, you know,

00:37defensive transition to get set.

00:39But we hurt ourselves with our turnovers, putting them in the open floor.

00:45There you go.

00:46That was obvious.

00:49You don't need to look at the stat sheet for that.

00:51Watch the game.

00:52And you know what?

00:53I think the speed of the game caused the Knicks all their turnovers.

00:56They're not meant – I've said this to you.

00:58They're not meant to be in a high-speed fifth-gear game.

01:01I think they're a half-court team of physicality, banging, in and out.

01:07I think they're a pick-and-roll, in-and-out team.

01:09I think they get the ball in the low block.

01:11They either get it there on an end or they get it there on a pick-and-roll.

01:15And then they either kick or they finish.

01:17The best success they've had in this series is, frankly, Towns going to the rack.

01:21Am I wrong?

01:21Towns certainly hasn't been shooting threes for this team.

01:25If you ask me, I mean, they've hit several threes, fair enough, but they've missed a ton of them, too.

01:30So, I like going – you know, I've always said if you're not hitting from outside, go to the 10.

01:35You're going to get fouled every time someone's going to try to stop you.

01:39There's no – like, guys give up and ones left and right on just baskets that should just purely be let the guy have the dunk.

01:47Dunk, don't touch him, but every time the guy – it's like a magnet.

01:50They foul him.

01:51You know, if a guy – if Siakam goes in to dunk, what are you doing fouling him?

01:56When you know he's going to throw it down, just let him throw it down.

01:58Don't give him an extra point.

02:01But they do it constantly.

02:04Constantly happens.

02:05And, look, if – you know, those are the type of games the Knicks – like you said, they got no shot winning.

02:11You know, that was like game one.

02:12I know that they blew game one in a different kind of way, but they're running up and down,

02:16giving up 40-plus points in a quarter.

02:18They've got no shot playing at that speed.

02:22That's why that under had no shot last night because they let him play at the Pacers' style,

02:27ran up and down the court, and now they're finished.

02:30Now they've got no shot.

02:32But, of course, the Knicks players say they are not going to quit.

02:36We'll start with Josh Hart.

02:37The Brazilian team, all year long, what's the message?

02:40Them 3-1, going back home, not to me, bro.

02:43Yeah, I mean, we're going back home.

02:46I've never known this team to quit.

02:50That's not the character of the guy that we have in the locker room.

02:53So, obviously, our back's against the wall.

02:56But, you know, we're competitors, and we're going to bring it until the series is over.

03:02So, obviously, we're disappointed with the position that we're in right now.

03:07But, you know, we don't quit.

03:11Yeah, that's great.

03:13Everyone, it's just so beautiful.

03:15It's like Christmas Day.

03:16It's like Christmas Day.

03:18Everyone's happy.

03:19He can say all he wants.

03:21You know, we're going home.

03:22We're doing this.

03:22We're doing that.

03:23They don't win at home.

03:26That's why this series is where it is because they blew.

03:29They're going to look back, and we notice.

03:30It's the first game.

03:31That's what cost them this series.

03:33That historic, should-have-never-happened melt that they had in the last two minutes of that first game.

03:41That's why they're finished.

03:42They'll never live it down.

03:44They're not.

03:45And they're like, oh, you know, ifs and buts, candy and nuts.

03:48You know, it is what it is.

03:49But that's why they are no longer going to be involved in the playoffs.

03:56Quickly for Cat, saying pretty much the same thing.

03:59I mean, we've been a team that has kind of found a way to do the impossible when it always seemed impossible.

04:12You know, we just keep fighting.

04:15So it's going to be a testament to our whole playoff run.

04:18You know, now we have to be in one of the biggest fights of our lives and of our season.

04:24And it starts with the next game.

04:26So just taking it game by game.

04:29Don't look ahead.

04:30Just worry about the first quarter of the next game, and we'll deal with the rest later.

04:35No, you won't.

04:39No, you won't.

04:40Deal with it later.

04:41It's simple.

04:41You know what they really need is, like I said, I thought that they had a lot of stupid fouls.

04:48Right?

04:49So I think they need to be a little more careful and selective on who they're fouling.

04:56Like, make your fouls count.

04:58Make them good fouls.

04:59Not just stupid fouls one after the next.

05:03And they need a couple of calls.

05:06Like the Pacers got on their home floor in game four.

05:09I mean, they got a lot of really nice and juicy calls.

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