Stephen A. Smith “Goes Crazy” New York Knicks DESTROY Philadelphia 76ers 128-92; Brunson 30 Pts

Stephen A. Smith “Goes Crazy” New York Knicks DESTROY Philadelphia 76ers 128-92; Brunson 30 Pts

Win it’s the Nick’s biggest one of the year the Sixers previous worst loss all year was by 13 points wow wow wow wow from our Delta Ms Studios bill pet along with alen Hana wellis zuback Monica mcnut will join us here shortly all right guys big picture three games since

A big trade Nicks beat the best team in the west Minnesota and now they beat Philadelphia after beating Chicago and if there was any concern about the bench at least for night Allan no more concerns about the bench 49- 15 was the bench score in this game and this is

Coming off the win off Chicago the bench was there was a lot of stories and concerns about this Nick’s bench after the trade where you going to get scoring from who’s going to step up can Duce McBride get it done as the backup point guard so many of those questions were

Answered tonight by these guys and as you throw in Josh Hart who did everything which is what he does those three guys were combined plus 103 in this game coming off a game in Chicago where they were minus 33 as a trio so you got to answer answer

Questions they did it tonight Wally well guys I I think the trade is working very nicely it’s unbelievable how this team has played after making that trade and it’s not easy to do to just pick up and have this type of success after making a pretty big move where you lose two

Rotation players add obviously one big rotation player and a guy like Precious aoua but all the other guys have stepped up they’ve really galvanized behind um ogan and Obi and precious and and Malachi Flame coming to this team it says a lot about the locker room the way

They’ve embraced these guys the way they’ve gotten these guys up to speed so fast and let’s repeat what you said the biggest loss to dat this season the Sixers team was 13 points the Knicks completely power washed them off the floor they just blew them out of the

Building that was some effort this team is coming together really really well and other guys are stepping up very well which is a great sign to see Julius Rand scored only eight points I know only points and they put up 128 and the key Allen the first half from three the

Knicks go 13 of 21 from downtown in the first two quarters their best half uh shooting the ball in fact one off the franchise record tie for most three’s made in the half yeah let’s remind people the Knicks were down by 10 points in this game early on where the Sixers

Have really been on a great roll and so you thought are you going to be chasing a scoreboard going uphill and then Dante de venzo who’s been red hot from downtown he knocks down a couple of Threes Jaylen brunson’s been very good from three-point range and he had a heck

Of a game tonight with 29 Points in a huge second quarter but how about du McBride comes into the game makes one then makes two okay you’re hot now your teammates want to find you wherever they can find you and they kept feeding him and he made a difference Jaylen Brunson

Continue here how about this little hand off the screen we haven’t even mentioned Isaiah hartstein Name by the way he gives you the screen assist there but hartenstein had a heck of a game tonight against Joel embiid but the three ball for the Knicks again they have been a

Really good the top 10 three-point point percentage team but tonight making 18 of 41 from downtown a big part of getting back into the game after being down 10 and a big part of taking over the game every time the Sixers made a push and what about the defense remember when

Mitchell Robinson went down the Knicks were giving up 140 136 146 it was like what’s going on with Tom tibo’s defense and all of a sudden you make this trade and the Knicks are holding teams under 100 again Allan I know you love when the Knicks you know get after it on defense

Hold them under a 100 their defensive rating is a lot where they wanted to be and Isaiah hartenstein boy has he really stepped up at the center position I mean Mitchell Robinson was great but he’s making us you know really just move on from that tragic injury from Mitchell

Robinson for the rest of the season and just say Isaiah hartstein you’re our guy man the middle and he’s doing an outstanding job all right guys time out bring in Monica mcnut from Philadelphia she helped call the game tonight on ESPN Radio 98.7 FM Monica let us know not

Forget about the fact that Quint Grimes through three quarters had not scored and he scored 18 points in what was a dominating fourth quarter for the Knicks yes and he talked about coming in and being ready to us postgame on the radio broadcast he’s like I know that I have

To come in and look to score for my teammates my teammates were looking for me and everybody knows what I do well so I need to go out there and do it but in addition to that pedo I asked him about this team’s defense tonight and he

Reiterated how important it was for them to have one another’s back and in particular have Isaiah Stein’s back as he was the primary defender on Mitchell or excuse me on Joel embiid for much of this ball game you know what mon didn’t we talk about that in the beginning of

The game like how do they how do they stop Joel embiid 30 and 10 he did it again of course but it wasn’t as if that dominated the game it was what the Knicks were doing as a fiveman unit as you just said helping Isaiah hartstein

Against him so it was a 310 for embiid but it didn’t feel like he dominated the game he didn’t there was a stretch in the third quarter where every time that he had had uh or when he was double teamed he either turned the ball over or

It was an empty possession there was like a six possession run where the Knicks managed to double team him and that was the result and so I think tonight you know we talked about a little bit honestly guys after the Chicago game right like there’s a reason

That your five versus r five lace up your sneakers and tonight I think you saw how lethal the Knicks can be when they are stout defensively and they look to score in transition 33 points in transition that’s a big deal and those are easy baskets it’s momentum baskets

It’s high energy not to mention the productivity that you got from your bench unit tonight which completely drowned out anything the Sixers bench had to offer Monica help me wrap my head around how this is happening you make a midseason trade you go 3 and 0 you blow

Out the Philadelphia 76ers one of the top teams in the East a great home team you absolutely shut up their crowd how is this happening so quickly and so perfectly for the Knicks well Wally okay let’s let’s work through this together because I think the first thing you got

To acknowledge is that you have Jaylen Brunson who should be an All-Star is going to be an all NBA caliber guy in that conversation and so you have the biggest piece in terms of stabilizing OG uniquely plays exactly his role he get a rebound he’s either looking for uh jayen

Or somebody to move the ball up the floor you don’t see him trying to do too much he’s cutting he’s scoring at The Rim beyond that we’ve already talked about Julius simplifying over the course of this season and even though he didn’t have a great offensive game tonight I

Thought he made the right plays in terms of defense and being involved in the physicality I think the roles are more defined now than they have ever been with this Nick Squad in the past two seasons and that has created so much Clarity top to bottom does that make

Sense yes it does definitely that definitely makes sense and then again so now we’re waiting for the roles to be defined Off the Bench and for Duce McBride what what a game for him to quiet some of the concerns about how are you know what are you going to do for

Somebody to back up Jaylen Brunson because Duce came in and he came in firing and showed a lot of confidence and that’s got to be important not just for him but for the Knicks to see right I would 100 100% agree and I actually

Thought I know he got hot and I think he ended up let’s see did he end up scoring more points than he played minutes oh it’s right he’s right there at 4 1458 and had 15 points on the game I actually thought because I don’t know about y’all

But that first seven minutes of the ball game I was like uhoh the Sixers are big they’re athletic this is not looking good so then Duce comes in and I thought he did a great job on Tyrese Maxi he obviously was an offensive Outburst of

Scoring and so I wonder where we in for a sneaky Deuce McBride game because of his quickness and ability to play but I think the in that first quarter when the made the adjustment and it was clear that they were going to pass the ball and not get lugged down in isolation

They were going to allow the dck the defense to dictate what they could do and they were going to do it and make them pay for giving up those options to me this was a really really mature performance by the Knicks it’s a great win all right Monica I’m coming to town

Tomorrow you going to meet me for lunch or blow me off because your pilates class like always honestly you need to come to Pilates like let go to get him in the gym mon please I know you’re always in the gym on the road make sure

You get a little workout in there I know not even to ask right I’ve learned my lesson already right got to get the workouts in pedo it’s January we got to start the year fresh we can’t have all of this in January P come on now by the

Way there’s a lot of candy over here Monica you’re missing out I mean there’s loads over here no I’m doing great y’all I’m avoiding all sugar for the next 30 days all right Monica thanks as always we’ll see you tomorrow uh when we come back we’ll have the guys breaking things

Down from the water well a lot of great stuff to look back on and also the postgame comments from Tom Tibido as a nick obliterate Philadelphia and that’s the right word 128 to [Applause] 92 [Applause] foree spe foree Speee For Spe our Middle Lane Tower is under attack executed dragon and Slayer have appeared fore Spee [Applause] our middle Lan Tower is under Attack foreign Spee our Middle Lane Tower is under ATT our Middle Lane Tower is under attack your tower has been destroyed the iron defense line has disappeared send in the Ballista away For for First [Applause] Blood took this

Stephen A. Smith “Goes Crazy” New York Knicks DESTROY Philadelphia 76ers 128-92; Jalen Brunson 30 Pts