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Speaker 1: So this show is supposed to be live, and the
Speaker 1: Pacers literally beat the Nicks so bad that we scrapped
Speaker 1: the live show and just decided to do a regular
Speaker 1: old YouTube video. This was kind of an interesting game
Speaker 1: from the standpoint of the schedule. Everyone's going every other
Speaker 1: night now and the Pacers in the Knicks played Game
Speaker 1: three on Friday night. Yet another crazy intense, clutch time
Speaker 1: type of game, right, and so what was the turnaround?
Speaker 1: Like roughly forty forty two hours since the end of
Speaker 1: Game three to turn around, and that obviously was going
Speaker 1: to be a major advantage to Indiana. You know, there's
Speaker 1: been a lot of talking about the war of attrition
Speaker 1: for the Knicks, but the truth of the matter is
Speaker 1: is every playoff run is a war of attrition. It
Speaker 1: just so happens that it's affecting the Knicks in a
Speaker 1: big way in this postseason run, but just about every year,
Speaker 1: you have to get a certain amount of injury luck
Speaker 1: around the along the way, not just for your team,
Speaker 1: but for the teams that you're going against. Like Lebron
Speaker 1: said that in an episode of the Mind the Game
Speaker 1: podcast with JJ which I thought was interesting. He basically
Speaker 1: just said, you gotta get lucky every single like to
Speaker 1: be a champion, you basically have to get lucky. It's
Speaker 1: part of that journey. There's a basketball element, there's a
Speaker 1: talent element, there's a coaching element, There's all these different elements.
Speaker 1: But the war of attrition is a significant part of that.
Speaker 1: And Indiana has held up better physically than the Knicks have,
Speaker 1: and so they completely took advantage of that in Game four.
Speaker 1: It was an ass kicking from the jump. It started
Speaker 1: on defense. Aaron Ne Smith is continuing to do just
Speaker 1: an incredible job on Jayalen Brunson, staying attached, physical ball pressure,
Speaker 1: making him work to get to his spots. Obviously, Brunson
Speaker 1: can't shoot over the top of him as easily as
Speaker 1: he did Andrew and Mhard or some of the other
Speaker 1: defenders on the floor getting out in transition was really
Speaker 1: the story of this game for the Pacers, though, and
Speaker 1: that really is the bread and butter of their offense.
Speaker 1: Tyres Alliburton is so good at kick ahead passes. Everyone
Speaker 1: on their team runs their lanes super well. If you're
Speaker 1: not ready for the track meet with Indiana, you can
Speaker 1: get run off the floor pretty quickly. The Pacers scored
Speaker 1: seven times just in the first quarter alone in transition,
Speaker 1: I mean seven points. They scored seven different possessions in
Speaker 1: transition in the first quarter. The Knicks looked tired, like
Speaker 1: I said, We're gonna get a little bit deeper into
Speaker 1: that in a minute. Overall, in transition, according to Cleaning
Speaker 1: the Glass, Indiana had a one point eighty seven offensive ratings.
Speaker 1: That means they score one hundred and eighty seven points
Speaker 1: per one hundred transition possessions. That's just off the charts.
Speaker 1: Good started with that usual pace that Tyres Alliburton brings
Speaker 1: that we were talking about earlier, kick ahead passes, guys
Speaker 1: running their lanes. But then TJ McConnell and Obi Topping
Speaker 1: in particular with that second unit, came in and they
Speaker 1: just continued that onslaught. TJ immediately took Jalen Brunson off
Speaker 1: the bounce and got an and won those transition pushes
Speaker 1: we were talking about, had a lob to obi toppin
Speaker 1: for a dunk obie top and hit a three on
Speaker 1: the left wing as well, and this thing was literally
Speaker 1: over before the first quarter. It was complete domination. According
Speaker 1: to Cleaning the Glass, Indiana dominated the half court battle.
Speaker 1: They had a one to five offensive rating and half
Speaker 1: court so they get one hundred and five points per
Speaker 1: one hundred half court plays. The Knicks only got eighty
Speaker 1: points per one hundred half court plays. That's a twenty
Speaker 1: five point per one hundred play gap between the Pacers
Speaker 1: and the Knicks. In this game, they out rebounded them
Speaker 1: fifty two to forty three, twenty two to five and
Speaker 1: fast break points kind of what we were talking about
Speaker 1: in transition earlier. Sixty to forty in points in the paint.
Speaker 1: Just a complete and total ass kicking. Another twenty point
Speaker 1: game from Tyres Halliburton. He's now averaging nineteen five and
Speaker 1: nine for the playoffs. He has a game winner in
Speaker 1: there as well. He's averaging twenty two points per game
Speaker 1: in his last seven postseason games, shooting forty one percent
Speaker 1: from three on eleven attempts over his last seven playoff games.
Speaker 1: He's so good at coming off of those ball screens
Speaker 1: at a little bit of an angle and dragging the
Speaker 1: screen defender off to the side, but kind of baiting
Speaker 1: him into giving him that space and rising up and
Speaker 1: hitting that pull up three point shot. He's also just
Speaker 1: doing an absolutely beautiful job of generating advantages every single
Speaker 1: possession for his team. Every guy on that team, whether
Speaker 1: it's Miles Turner, Aaronie Smith, Andrew Nemhard, Pascal Siakam, they're
Speaker 1: almost always operating with the defender closing out at them,
Speaker 1: and that's just a significant advantage that doesn't even show
Speaker 1: up in the box score because of the fact that
Speaker 1: if a guy gets you know, if Tyres Alburton comes
Speaker 1: off a ball screen and brings in a guy tagging
Speaker 1: from the weakside and throws a skip pass and that
Speaker 1: dude drives a close out and makes a kick to
Speaker 1: Nie Smith on the left wing and he hits a three,
Speaker 1: Tyres Aalburn does not get an assist for that. You know,
Speaker 1: a lot of times him breaking down the defense doesn't
Speaker 1: result in assists. And it's just so much easier to
Speaker 1: play basketball when the defender's closing out at you versus one,
Speaker 1: he's in a set defense position, and I just think
Speaker 1: he's done an unbelievable job, especially in the last few weeks,
Speaker 1: of just consistently generating advantages for his team. And then
Speaker 1: I can't say enough about the job that Aaron Nesmith
Speaker 1: is doing on Jalen Brunson. It has completely changed the
Speaker 1: feel of this series. Brunson is just sixteen for forty
Speaker 1: three in his last two games, looking a lot more
Speaker 1: like Game one and two against the Sixers, just two
Speaker 1: for eleven from three. He's visibly a lot less comfortable
Speaker 1: in that matchup than he is against pretty much anyone
Speaker 1: else on the floor on an ex front. Like I said,
Speaker 1: it is a war of attrition, but it extends beyond
Speaker 1: the injured players. Obviously, you're down two starters Julius Randolo, Jiannobi,
Speaker 1: multiple bench pieces like Mitchell Robinson and boy and mcdonovich.
Speaker 1: But you're also just playing like a really tough brand
Speaker 1: of basketball. You're playing hard all the time. You're asking
Speaker 1: the healthy guys on your roster to do a lot.
Speaker 1: Josh Hart has been playing over forty six minutes per
Speaker 1: game in the postseason that's second place among remaining players
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. In guests, who's second place Jalen Brunson,
Speaker 1: his teammate. The highest non Nick remaining is Luca at
Speaker 1: forty one point nine minutes per game. So Josh Hart's
Speaker 1: just has the toughest workload in the league right now.
Speaker 1: Dante di Vincenzo is averaging over forty four or just
Speaker 1: beneath forty four minutes per game in this series with
Speaker 1: Indiana not counting today obviously, So it's just a heavy workload.
Speaker 1: And you just played on Friday night. That was forty
Speaker 1: two hours before the tip of this game. It's basically
Speaker 1: a day and a half. So I thought they clearly
Speaker 1: looked exhausted. Brunton started the game zero for five. He
Speaker 1: was struggling to get separation, he was leaving shots short
Speaker 1: on the rim. The whole team was struggling to get
Speaker 1: back in transition. There were so many of these plays
Speaker 1: that one of the big guys I noticed it with
Speaker 1: with with was Hartenstein, where I'm watching Hartenstein like he's
Speaker 1: jogging up the floor exhausted. Everyone on this team is
Speaker 1: really tired at this point. Now here's the upside, though,
Speaker 1: You have fifty plus hours before Game five, everyone on
Speaker 1: your team played a relatively light minute load. Brunson still
Speaker 1: got over thirty, barely, I think, and then I think
Speaker 1: Josh Hart got over thirty, but nothing like what you've
Speaker 1: been doing the rest of this postseason. And you're going home,
Speaker 1: so rest up and just get back to playing Nick's
Speaker 1: basketball in Madison Square Garden in Game five and you're
Speaker 1: in a much better spot to try to regain control
Speaker 1: of this series. But the reality is is your five
Speaker 1: best players are four guards in a center at this point,
Speaker 1: so you're physically overmatched, you're fatigued, you're missing some vitally
Speaker 1: important position groups, You're just not getting enough of the
Speaker 1: skill piece of things from Precious to Chua to kind
Speaker 1: of maintain that size on the floor, And so they
Speaker 1: kind of have to go with Douce McBride in that spot,
Speaker 1: and obviously that opens up a whole other can of worms,
Speaker 1: so they've got a challenge in front of them. But
Speaker 1: I do think a good hefty rest off of a
Speaker 1: lighter workload in game four and going back to Madison
Speaker 1: Square Garden should give the Knicks enough to at least
Speaker 1: keep things really close in Game five and My guess
Speaker 1: is Game five is gonna be another classic Knicks playoff
Speaker 1: game where it's like, you know, tied game with five
Speaker 1: minutes left, and it's gonna be who can create shots
Speaker 1: better Tyres Aliburton versus Jalen Brunson. We will obviously be
Speaker 1: there live after those games on Tuesday night. That's all
Speaker 1: I have for this particular video. Like I said, we're
Speaker 1: gonna be back tonight with Colin Coward after Wolve's Nuggets,
Speaker 1: I will be that one's not gonna be live, So
Speaker 1: you're just gonna want to check out the Colin Coward
Speaker 1: podcast feed check, you know. I would say, like, you know,
Speaker 1: a couple hours after the end of that game, and
Speaker 1: it should be uploaded. I if I see the link
Speaker 1: all tweeted out as well. But I really appreciate you
Speaker 1: guys don't forget about Celtics Caves from earlier today, and
Speaker 1: then I'll see you guys later tonight with Colin the
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