KNICKS: A Team of DESTINY?!

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:03]Woohoo, weee!

[00:00:05]This is still the same team, same core of players that did what they did last year in Boston.

[00:00:11]Like they are resilient. They are >> They are resilient. They are resilient, but coming back from down 20 in the third quarter is far different than You just don't think you have enough time.

[00:00:21]>> but it's on the other team to make you quit.

[00:00:26]To to like to take to snatch the hope away. But they really had It's like Well, the second but they their offense all of a sudden was stagnant. It was like, "Hey, let's just use the clock up and we're getting stops." And then down the other end Jaylen was going nuts. It's like, "Okay, now like you could feel it." You could feel the momentum building and they didn't stop it.

[00:00:48]And that could be time out, that could be you know, finally someone starts making a shot, whatever it is.

[00:00:53]Like that Mobley shot was a big one, but then we answered right back.

[00:00:56]>> Have you been on teams in the past that would lose a game like that and they'd have no chance to get up from it?

[00:01:02]Yeah.

[00:01:03]Yeah, but that I mean that starts with I mean that's coach, leader, best player Mhm. just refusing. Like you saw what going back to that um the Stanley Cup final.

[00:01:13]Where McDavid who came in the locker room and started screaming at the guys.

[00:01:16]>> Mhm. But then he's got to go out there and play a certain level. Like I mean Jaylen can say whatever he wants, but because I'm sure he's in the in the huddle talking about, "Hey boys, let's go. Let's get this thing going." And then he goes out and does what he does.

[00:01:27]Now everyone's like, "Okay, our best player believes that we can do this. We can do it." Yeah. Uh Donovan Mitchell, how in the world do you rebound from this loss last night? It's one game. We could have lost by 40.

[00:01:38]Still would have been 1-0. So, just watch the film. We played, you know, pretty solid for three quarters or so.

[00:01:43]We'll make adjustments and go from there. Um see, I don't agree with that.

[00:01:47]It it if you if you go out and you lose by 40, I don't think it's nearly as devastating as what happened last night.

[00:01:52]Well, I think >> that you lost, it's how you lost it.

[00:01:54]>> I think I think you lost and I also think it's the amount of energy you spent in the loss. Like I mean Philly was okay with just getting blown out cuz the guys were rested and they'd be, you know, good to go in game two. This is you expended a tremendous amount of physical and emotional energy for a game you should have won and you lost it.

[00:02:10]So, could they bounce back? Yeah, they could bounce back. I mean, could this I could their guys are built certain ways.

[00:02:15]Like maybe Donovan Mitchell's one of those guys that can just kind of shrug this thing off. I believe in Donovan Mitchell. Yeah, I mean, I would be a little pissed off if I was him that I wasn't more involved or allowed myself not to be more involved.

[00:02:24]>> Well, yeah, some of the blame has to go on him. Like you demand the basketball.

[00:02:28]>> He took six shots in overtime and in the fourth quarter.

[00:02:31]>> And he And he's your guy.

[00:02:32]>> Three points.

[00:02:32]>> That's That's your guy. Get him the ball. And he's the I mean, Harden does it well, too, but he's I mean, Mitchell getting to the basket can pick up fouls.

[00:02:41]Yes. Right. Just get easy points at the foul line. Right. I mean, he was the one that had it going offensively for them.

[00:02:45]It's just like his This is where he wanted to be in all the different story lines, but like I just don't know how in that moment you just don't like We have a lead right now. The biggest thing for us is to get stops.

[00:02:56]Like I mean, they they showed you how they were running their offense that it wasn't necessarily like we need to keep scoring. We just need to eat this shot clock up and then get stops.

[00:03:03]>> If you take 20 20 seconds off and stop >> on the floor then? It It makes no sense.

[00:03:07]By the another thing, now, it makes sense with the Knicks not shooting well from the line cuz of of Mitchell Robinson >> But Cleveland didn't shoot well from the line, either. Well, they had 70%. They a little under.

[00:03:19]Yeah, no, they're not they're not I mean, Harden, for such a good shooter, misses a lot of free throws. Uh he only missed two. It's four of six. That That's not good.

[00:03:28]>> Jarrett Allen missed four. Yeah, Jarrett Allen's not good from the line. Mobley's like 70% shooter. Yeah, they're not a good Donovan Mitchell only had one free throw attempt. That's amazing.

[00:03:37]It's It's It's >> That would be something that I would want to figure out, also.

[00:03:39]>> you you would want to remedy that a little bit. I I agree. Let's go to Bobby up in Saratoga. Morning, Bobby. How are you?

[00:03:46]Good morning, gentlemen. Shout out to the company. Go, New York. Go, New York.

[00:03:50]Go. Oh, man, that was amazing last night. And Dave, you were right. I was I was getting ready to be despondent this morning.

[00:04:00]But >> Well, I I think you'd be angry, and you'd be appropriately annoyed and angry and all the feelings, but it still would I mean, I think this team has earned the right for you to believe in them for more than just losing one awful game.

[00:04:13]>> It would have just been a rough day today.

[00:04:15]>> Yes. If If that kept going.

[00:04:18]But uh I just wanted to to bring up what Alan said before the game last night. Did the Yankees or did the Yankees did the Knicks lose um learn from last year? And what they and how what happened in game one, but I think it was also it was game one last year and how they blew it as well as how they were able to come back from 20-point deficit.

[00:04:42]>> Yeah, it was the Boston series. It was a combination of both.

[00:04:45]They are They are a gritty They are a gritty team. Well, I mean, it's a it's you know that you can do it cuz you did it. Now, I mean, circumstances are different cuz it's just and it was also done to you. Right, it's just under 8 minutes and it's 22 points, but then you're on the other side of that where you can like you can feel it and like how it affected you in that moment. And what that pressure and what the you know, once you get that momentum what that does to the other team.

[00:05:07]>> More miraculous.

[00:05:09]What Indiana did from a neutral perspective?

[00:05:11]>> This.

[00:05:12]This was more miraculous than Indiana's comeback last year. Yeah.

[00:05:15]Well, stats will tell you that. No one's ever done it. No one's ever done it.

[00:05:18]It's not like a small sample size. But Indiana did it on the road. Yeah, which makes it even more impressive.

[00:05:23]And I think that's why it was so debilitating. Cuz you did that at home.

[00:05:26]>> But you did come back and win game two.

[00:05:30]Did we win game two? They had to win game two.

[00:05:33]The Knicks won game two last year, didn't they? I don't know. We lost game >> They lost game two. They lost game two.

[00:05:36]They lost game two. They went down 2-0.

[00:05:38]Yes. They lost the series in what, six last year?

[00:05:43]Uh that's brutal.

[00:05:44]>> Yeah. Game two was 114-109 Indiana.

[00:05:47]>> Do you Do you think that the hangover of game one affected them game two? I could feel it. I think I remember going like watching game two and it's like mhm.

[00:05:55]That took something out of Hopefully we have the same thing this year. Now you're chasing that. The hangover from game one affects game two. And I guess it's a good thing for them that they don't have to dwell on this for two days off. If you're Cleveland, you get right back at it after one day off.

[00:06:09]>> Listen, it outside of the physical and mental toll this took on you. If you're Kenny Atkinson, right? I think you have first and foremost you kind of have to take you have to take some of the blame for this.

[00:06:19]Just to show your guys like hey listen, I was a part of this. I think I'd almost take all the blame.

[00:06:22]Right. And then we start working on how we're going to you know, how we're going to make adjustments. And then fellas, as tough as that was, it's game one.

[00:06:31]It's on the road.

[00:06:32]>> Right. We still have We've done nothing.

[00:06:34]We have every opportunity to do exactly what we came to New York to do, which is take one of these games and then we go back home. Smash them in game two.

[00:06:40]That's it. Don't don't stress us out in game two. Kenny Atkinson, I I haven't heard this. I don't want to hear this.

[00:06:44]You're not using timeouts down the stretch. Yeah, well I like to hold my timeouts. I mean you know, I didn't want to get have one timeout at the end of the game, one of two point game.

[00:06:55]I try to hold them. All right, go ahead.

[00:06:56]Good.

[00:06:57]>> even take it.

[00:06:58]>> [laughter] >> He didn't take it before the last shot.

[00:07:00]That is the worst Could you imagine if that was a Knicks coach saying that?

[00:07:04]What would we do today?

[00:07:06]I like to hold my timeout.

[00:07:07]>> not need it though. That's the thing.

[00:07:09]Like during the course of the game you might not need it. You had it. You like to have it AND YOU DIDN'T TAKE IT. YOU STILL didn't use it.

[00:07:15]He likes to have it though. It's like a Those those timeouts do not have a He did have it. And and he doesn't necessarily like to take them. But if you don't use it, you lose it. But he just likes to have them.

[00:07:27]Collect them. Yeah. Hey Kenny, did you have timeouts at the end of the game? As a matter of fact, I did. I two.

[00:07:33]Take it. Why not take it? Take it, but feel like I mean be present in the game.

[00:07:37]Like you see what's happening.

[00:07:39]Like if this continues, there's a chance I don't need the timeout cuz it's not going to be a one possession game if we continue to play the way we're playing.

[00:07:45]>> The fact so you're like this 22-point lead is cut down to to 10 to 8 and your thought is no, no, I'm going to need this for the final stages of the game.

[00:07:53]>> getting real bad. I may need it at the end.

[00:07:55]>> I I might need this to to set up a play with 30 seconds left.

[00:07:58]>> I've always stopped the bleeding now, man.

[00:08:00]>> Oh my god.

[00:08:02]Someone fake an injury.

[00:08:06]Somebody Somebody get really hurt.

[00:08:08]>> I can't I can't I I like to have the you're up 22 points. Somewhere along the line take a timeout. Do something. I like to have them Make an adjustment. Do something. I mean you see exactly what they're doing and they did to listen, to their credit The next like they just did it they they You can't stop it, we'll keep doing it.

[00:08:23]>> Well, you know what? Good news for Kenny Atkinson, he still has a timeout. We're going to drag James Harden up in this action. We're going to make him switch and then >> He can't carry it over to game two, right?

[00:08:31]>> he might think he can.

[00:08:32]And I like Kenny Atkinson.

[00:08:33]>> I So do I.

[00:08:35]But that is That is a I mean That is a Listen to this again.

[00:08:39]>> Now I like to hold my timeouts. I mean I can't you know, I don't want to go have one timeout at the end of the game, one or two-point game.

[00:08:47]I try to hold them. Why?

[00:08:49]I try I try to hold them. Try to hold them. Why would you ever think you'd be in a one or two-point game? And I love them and I pet them.

[00:08:54]>> [laughter] >> And I said I I called them George.

[00:08:56]George. Do you think he Do you think he names his timeouts? RJ, do you think there's any chance that that he names his timeouts?

[00:09:03]I Watching it in real time, it it felt it felt like the moment got too big for for a coach that I respect.

[00:09:11]>> He's a good coach. And I like they they kept forcing the ball out of So you need a willing participant. If you're going to have a comeback like that like you guys said earlier, you you need the other team to do their part.

[00:09:21]>> I like to hold I like to hold them.

[00:09:23]>> But I mean but but they did they did everything.

[00:09:25]Every everything you could have asked.

[00:09:27]Like Knicks forced the ball out of Donovan Mitchell's hands. They were like okay, we'll just That that's not right.

[00:09:32]>> It was one of the great collapses in sports history. here's >> reality of this though is this is not like you know, me or you standing on a bench by ourselves and having to do everything. Where it's like I'm worried about making adjustments.

[00:09:43]>> a a litany of coaches right there. You have Okay, hey listen.

[00:09:47]This coach, you're paying attention to the whatever you like however you have however you have the roles delegated.

[00:09:53]Like as a head coach though, like one of your main jobs like the priority on your priority list needs to be like you need to have a feel for what's going on.

[00:10:00]Who's playing well, who's not playing well, how the momentum's going and then you can either stop it, keep it going like that's your job.

[00:10:05]Adjustment stuff can be someone else.

[00:10:07]Hey coach, this isn't looking good like this you know, let's take James out and put someone else. What should you do?

[00:10:10]I need to focus on that. At the very least, that needs to be my focus. You could feel it. Watching it on TV, you could feel it.

[00:10:16]>> I I I am thrilled with the result just in thinking about it and listening I I am furious.

[00:10:22]I mean You're a Cavs fan? I don't know how you get up for this.

[00:10:25]>> I would name him George and I will hug him and pet him and squeeze him.

[00:10:31]I coach pee wee hockey [clears throat] and have a hard time sleeping if like I don't if I don't make the right decisions. I couldn't imagine coaching game one of these in the conference finals. Yeah, so he he he did he he called the one time out.

[00:10:41]Yeah, during the run but he he he lost the Yeah, but when did he wait till? He lost the use it or lose it timeouts too.

[00:10:46]Like so he he Timeouts you can't save. I I That's that's odd. What was alarming and we it was in the chat too.

[00:10:56]Donovan Mitchell just it felt like I know he missed some shots but it felt like he was just uninvolved.

[00:10:59]>> took six shots Andre. Do you know do you know when he I'm sure you do when he made his last field goal in this game?

[00:11:05]Uh it was early in the fourth quarter.

[00:11:07]>> 8:19 of the fourth. Yeah. He did So he went 13 minutes of not scoring.

[00:11:12]Uh field goal. Right. He didn't score in overtime. Yeah, didn't score in overtime. Didn't score in overtime.

[00:11:16]Yeah. Well, good for us.

[00:11:23]>> [music] [music] >> Mhm.